{"id":27708,"date":"2015-09-11T12:27:33","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T16:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=27708"},"modified":"2015-09-11T12:27:33","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T16:27:33","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-your-very-own-space-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2015\/09\/11\/flash-fiction-challenge-your-very-own-space-opera\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: Your Very Own Space Opera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"comment-authors group\">Okay, first up, some administrative duties &#8212;<\/p>\n<p class=\"comment-authors group\">IT IS TIME TO NAME THE WINNER OF MY FAKE AFTERMATH SPOILERS CONTEST.<\/p>\n<p class=\"comment-authors group\">It was very hard to pick just one. So I have picked three. Those three are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ryan Allen:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Salacious Crumb, Jabba\u2019s pet, indeed crawled maimed from the Sail Barge wreckage, going on to create a vast clone army of himself known as the Knights of Crumb.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Brandon Sparks:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Final Scene:<\/p>\n<p>Wedge steps into his apartment on Rebel-occupied Coruscant. Weary from defeating the true villain (a 30-meter tall, weaponized Gonk droid piloted by the mind-controlled, reconstituted corpse of Jek Porkins), he tosses the keys to his X-Wing on the side table and reaches for the light switch.<\/p>\n<p>The lights flicker, then fade.<\/p>\n<p>Surprised, Wedge looks up to see a hooded figure standing across the room, silhouetted against the Coruscant cityscape. The figure speaks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Antilles, you\u2019ve just stepped into a whole new galaxy. You just don\u2019t know it yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The figure turns and lowers the hood of his tattered Jedi robe, revealing a gleaming bald head and an eyepatch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy name is Mace Windu. I\u2019m here to talk to you about the Lobot Initiative.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Nick Nafpliotis:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thrawn &amp; Mara Jade make a cameo as nomads on Tatooine before being run over by a rogue podracer dubbed \u2018The Canon.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You three? EMAIL ME. Terribleminds at gmail dot com. Gimme your addresses, yeah?<\/p>\n<p>Now.<\/p>\n<p>Time for this week&#8217;s challenge.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a simple one, and based off the fact that it&#8217;s been a very\u00a0<strong>Star Wars<\/strong>-flavored week for me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You should write 1000 words of space opera.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it. Them&#8217;s the only rules. One genre. One story. Flash fiction. Normal rules apply: write it at your online space, link back here, due by next Friday (the 18th) by noon EST.<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"ProfileHeaderCard-name\"><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, first up, some administrative duties &#8212; IT IS TIME TO NAME THE WINNER OF MY FAKE AFTERMATH SPOILERS CONTEST. It was very hard to pick just one. So I have picked three. 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