{"id":31910,"date":"2018-02-16T07:46:43","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T12:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=31910"},"modified":"2018-02-16T07:46:43","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T12:46:43","slug":"flash-fiction-challenge-a-world-without-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2018\/02\/16\/flash-fiction-challenge-a-world-without-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash Fiction Challenge: A World Without Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tough challenge after this week&#8217;s news &#8212; but I&#8217;ve seen some folks talk about what fiction can do or say about the (yet another) school shooting, and I think genre fiction has a chance to do something or say something interesting regarding it. Science-fiction, for instance, pretends to be about our future but it&#8217;s nearly always about our present.<\/p>\n<p>So, your job is to compose a piece of flash fiction where guns are gone &#8212; for whatever reason, made illegal, never been invented, use your imagination. This is primed for sci-fi, but feel free to find a way to make it work as fantasy or horror or XYZ genre, too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Length<\/strong>: You have ~1500 words.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Due by<\/strong>: Friday, Feb 23rd, noon EST<\/p>\n<p>Post at your online space.<\/p>\n<p>Drop a link to the story in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tough challenge after this week&#8217;s news &#8212; but I&#8217;ve seen some folks talk about what fiction can do or say about the (yet another) school shooting, and I think genre fiction has a chance to do something or say something interesting regarding it. Science-fiction, for instance, pretends to be about our future but it&#8217;s nearly [&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-31910","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-8iG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31910","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=31910"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31912,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31910\/revisions\/31912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}