{"id":30922,"date":"2017-04-07T12:40:10","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T16:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=30922"},"modified":"2017-04-07T12:40:10","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T16:40:10","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-the-end-of-a-long-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2017\/04\/07\/flash-fiction-challenge-the-end-of-a-long-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: The End Of A Long Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That title sounds like I&#8217;m shuttering the flash fiction challenges forever, but I promise, that&#8217;s not the case &#8212; no, instead, I want you to use that idea as this week&#8217;s prompt.<\/p>\n<p>What I mean is this:<\/p>\n<p>I want you to write the end of a long journey.<\/p>\n<p>That can mean whatever it needs to mean in the context of your story.<\/p>\n<p>The story can be any genre.<\/p>\n<p>The tricky bit here will be &#8212; how can you get in a beginning, a middle, and an end for what is ostensibly the period of a narrative consisting\u00a0<em>only\u00a0<\/em>the end? It&#8217;ll require you to bring some skills to bear to make it work, to give us all the information we need, and to make it more than a snapshot in time or just a vignette.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Length<\/strong>: ~1500 words<\/p>\n<p><strong>Due by<\/strong>: 4\/14, Friday, noon EST<\/p>\n<p>Post the story online.<\/p>\n<p>Link to it in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That title sounds like I&#8217;m shuttering the flash fiction challenges forever, but I promise, that&#8217;s not the case &#8212; no, instead, I want you to use that idea as this week&#8217;s prompt. What I mean is this: I want you to write the end of a long journey. That can mean whatever it needs to [&hellip;]<\/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-30922","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-82K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30922","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=30922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30923,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30922\/revisions\/30923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}