{"id":31082,"date":"2017-06-02T08:03:31","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T12:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=31082"},"modified":"2017-06-02T08:03:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T12:03:31","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-invasive-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2017\/06\/02\/flash-fiction-challenge-invasive-species\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: Invasive Species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2017\/05\/30\/invasive-out-now-in-paperback\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>This week, the paperback of Invasive landed<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Presently, I am in a shed that has once again, in a timely fashion, become a staging ground for gigantic carpenter ants. I have two above my head right now. I had\u00a0<em>three<\/em> above my head five minutes ago, but one literally dropped down\u00a0<em>onto my hand<\/em>\u00a0<em>as I was typing<\/em>\u00a0<em>an email<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>So, I figure that makes a good flash fiction challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The book is called <strong>Invasive<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is, in part, about invasive species.<\/p>\n<p>So, write about that. In whatever capacity you so choose. Take inspiration from it. Needn&#8217;t be sci-fi. What&#8217;s an invasive species look like in fantasy or horror? How could it figure into a crime or mystery story?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Length<\/strong>: ~1500 words<\/p>\n<p><strong>Due by<\/strong>: June 9th, Friday, noon EST<\/p>\n<p>Post at your online space.<\/p>\n<p>Drop a link in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, the paperback of Invasive landed. Presently, I am in a shed that has once again, in a timely fashion, become a staging ground for gigantic carpenter ants. I have two above my head right now. I had\u00a0three above my head five minutes ago, but one literally dropped down\u00a0onto my hand\u00a0as I was typing\u00a0an [&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-31082","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-85k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31082","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=31082"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31084,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31082\/revisions\/31084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}