{"id":26019,"date":"2015-01-30T12:17:07","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T17:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=26019"},"modified":"2015-01-30T12:51:57","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T17:51:57","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-the-subgenre-blender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2015\/01\/30\/flash-fiction-challenge-the-subgenre-blender\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: The SubGenre Blender"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week’s challenge: Must Contain Three Things<\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This week is one of my favorite\u00a0brands<\/em> of challenge — the subgenre smash-up.<\/p>\n

Your goal is simple: pick one subgenre from each of the two tables below (preferably randomly, using either a die or a random number generator<\/strong><\/span><\/a>) and then mash those two genres up into a single story.<\/p>\n

This time around, let’s say you have 2000 words. Write it at your online space, link back here in the comments so we can all see it. You’ve got one week — due next Friday by noon EST.<\/p>\n

Subgenre Table 1<\/h2>\n
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  1. Haunted House<\/li>\n
  2. Space Opera<\/li>\n
  3. Cryptozoological<\/li>\n
  4. Sword & Sorcery<\/li>\n
  5. Cozy mystery<\/li>\n
  6. Dystopian<\/li>\n
  7. Zombie<\/li>\n
  8. Espionage<\/li>\n
  9. Arthurian Fantasy<\/li>\n
  10. Vampire\u00a0Erotica<\/li>\n
  11. Greek Mythology<\/li>\n
  12. Kaiju<\/li>\n
  13. Utopian<\/li>\n
  14. Lovecraftian<\/li>\n
  15. Extraterrestrial<\/li>\n
  16. Conspiracy Thriller<\/li>\n
  17. Steampunk<\/li>\n
  18. Dieselpunk<\/li>\n
  19. Cornpunk<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/li>\n
  20. Urban Fantasy<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Subgenre Table 2<\/h2>\n
      \n
    1. Weird Tales<\/li>\n
    2. Technothriller<\/li>\n
    3. Noir Detective<\/li>\n
    4. Biopunk<\/li>\n
    5. Heist \/ Caper!<\/li>\n
    6. Slasher \/ Final Girl<\/li>\n
    7. Alternate History<\/li>\n
    8. Disaster Porn<\/li>\n
    9. Superhero<\/li>\n
    10. Eco-Thriller<\/li>\n
    11. Bumbling Detective<\/li>\n
    12. Wild West<\/li>\n
    13. Artificial Intelligence<\/li>\n
    14. Comic Fantasy<\/li>\n
    15. Psychological Thriller<\/li>\n
    16. Regency Romance<\/li>\n
    17. Magical Realism<\/li>\n
    18. Bodice Ripper<\/li>\n
    19. Paranormal Romance<\/li>\n
    20. Satanic Horror<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Last week’s challenge: Must Contain Three Things. This week is one of my favorite\u00a0brands of challenge — the subgenre smash-up. Your goal is simple: pick one subgenre from each of the two tables below (preferably randomly, using either a die or a random number generator) and then mash those two genres up into a single […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-6LF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26019"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26022,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26019\/revisions\/26022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}