{"id":31246,"date":"2017-07-28T10:40:24","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T14:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=31246"},"modified":"2017-07-28T10:40:24","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T14:40:24","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-slasher-movie-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2017\/07\/28\/flash-fiction-challenge-slasher-movie-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: Slasher Movie Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, given <a href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2017\/07\/28\/when-authors-talk-on-twitter-slasher-movie-edition\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>this interaction<\/strong><\/span><\/a> and also the release of Riley Sager&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2h9d8Vv\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>FINAL GIRLS<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, I figure today&#8217;s flash fiction challenge would be cool if it played with the\u00a0<em>slasher movie<\/em> story type &#8212; so, write a story that has something to do in some way with a slasher film narrative. (Think,\u00a0<strong>Halloween<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Nightmare on Elm Street<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Friday the 13th<\/strong>, so on, so forth.) It can be a horror story or not &#8212; feel free to play with this story type in the context of other genres. It also doesn&#8217;t need to be a slasher story itself if you don&#8217;t want &#8212; it just needs to use the idea in some way. (Maybe the characters totally love slasher movies, f&#8217;rex.)<\/p>\n<p>Sharpen the knife. Have fun.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Length<\/strong>: ~1500 words<\/p>\n<p><strong>Due by<\/strong>: August 4th, Friday, noon EST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, given this interaction and also the release of Riley Sager&#8217;s FINAL GIRLS, I figure today&#8217;s flash fiction challenge would be cool if it played with the\u00a0slasher movie story type &#8212; so, write a story that has something to do in some way with a slasher film narrative. (Think,\u00a0Halloween,\u00a0Nightmare on Elm Street,\u00a0Friday the 13th, so [&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-31246","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-87Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31246","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=31246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31247,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31246\/revisions\/31247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}