{"id":31196,"date":"2017-07-07T13:34:34","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T17:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=31196"},"modified":"2017-07-07T13:34:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T17:34:34","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-there-is-no-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2017\/07\/07\/flash-fiction-challenge-there-is-no-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: There Is No Exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c2.staticflickr.com\/2\/1269\/4669122670_d767300b98_b.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c2.staticflickr.com\/2\/1269\/4669122670_d767300b98_b.jpg?resize=700%2C467&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last night, I had a dream &#8212; no, no, not the one with Mrs. Butterscotch and the strap-on dildo covered in spray cheese. This one was a dream in which a phrase figured prominently:<\/p>\n<p><strong>There is no exit<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know why.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what it means.<\/p>\n<p>It probably doesn&#8217;t mean anything, because dreams are just your brain&#8217;s way of pooping.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway.<\/p>\n<p>I thought it would make a very good flash fiction challenge.<\/p>\n<p>So, incorporate that phrase &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no exit&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; into the story. Either as a title, a line of dialogue, a theme, whatever.<\/p>\n<p>Go forth and tell the story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Length<\/strong>: ~1000 words<\/p>\n<p><strong>Due by<\/strong>: July 14th, Friday, noon, EST<\/p>\n<p>Post at your online space, then give us a link so we can read it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, I had a dream &#8212; no, no, not the one with Mrs. Butterscotch and the strap-on dildo covered in spray cheese. This one was a dream in which a phrase figured prominently: There is no exit. I don&#8217;t know why. I don&#8217;t know what it means. It probably doesn&#8217;t mean anything, because dreams [&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-31196","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-87a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31196","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=31196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31197,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31196\/revisions\/31197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}