{"id":8088,"date":"2011-03-04T10:55:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T15:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=8088"},"modified":"2011-03-11T11:01:08","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T16:01:08","slug":"irregular-creatures-flash-fiction-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2011\/03\/04\/irregular-creatures-flash-fiction-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Irregular Creatures: Flash Fiction Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Shackleton’s Scotch challenge was pretty dang cool, and the results<\/strong><\/span><\/a> were, frankly, fun as hell to read. And a number of you said you’d be interested in more flash fiction challenges.<\/p>\n

So, here I am, once more throwing down the gauntlet.<\/p>\n

As you may know, I have a short story collection called IRREGULAR CREATURES (buy here<\/span><\/a>)<\/strong>, which features nine tales of bizarre-o beasties, mythological miscreants, and mad monsters — the creatures found in that collection (flying cats, Bigfoot, mermaids, mystic hobos, evil sex monkeys, the mesmerizing vagina of a fallen angel) are in many ways like the writer himself: an odd-seeming and often irregular entity.<\/p>\n

This week’s challenge, which runs from today till next Friday (3\/11\/11) at noon, asks you to take those two words — “irregular creature” — and craft some flash fiction around it.<\/p>\n

Whatever that phrase means to you, run with it.<\/p>\n

You’ve got 1000 words.<\/p>\n

Doesn’t mean you need to stay inside the margins of genre — while fantasy, sci-fi, horror and humor are apropos, anything goes in terms of the inspiration you take from that pair of words.<\/p>\n

I’ll once more compile them at the end of the seven days.<\/p>\n

Well, what the hell are you waiting around for? Get thee to the word mines!<\/p>\n

Your own irregular creatures await.<\/p>\n

The Results<\/h3>\n

Karina Cooper, “Looking Too Hard<\/strong><\/span><\/a>”<\/p>\n

Josin McQueen, “Irregular Creatures<\/strong><\/span><\/a>”<\/p>\n

Jamie Wyman, “Step Right Up<\/strong><\/span><\/a>”<\/p>\n

Angela Perry, “Dog Farts<\/strong><\/span><\/a>”<\/p>\n

Wes Robinson, “Irregular Creatures<\/strong><\/span><\/a>”<\/p>\n

CY, “Signing On<\/strong><\/span><\/a>”<\/p>\n

Tim Kelley, “Snowbirds<\/strong><\/span><\/a>”<\/p>\n

Albert Berg, “The Life And Times Of Casey Jones<\/strong><\/span><\/a>”<\/p>\n

Anthony Laffan, “Three Nights ‘Til The New Moon<\/strong><\/span><\/a>”<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Newlin, “Irregular Creatures<\/strong><\/span><\/a>”<\/p>\n

Amber Keller, “Running On E<\/strong><\/span><\/a>”<\/p>\n

MKS, “Irregular Creatures<\/strong><\/span><\/a>”<\/p>\n

Ben, “Coyote<\/strong><\/span><\/a>”<\/p>\n

Paul Vogt, “Attempt #3<\/strong><\/span><\/a>”<\/p>\n

Snellopy, “Dogspider<\/strong><\/span><\/a>”<\/p>\n

Shree, “Daddy’s Girl<\/strong><\/span><\/a>”<\/p>\n

Marko Kloos, “Seeds<\/strong><\/span><\/a>”<\/p>\n

Aiwevenya, “Writing Class<\/strong><\/span><\/a>”<\/p>\n

Tara Tyler, “Irregular Creature<\/strong><\/span><\/a>”<\/p>\n

McDroll, “My Irregular Little Creature<\/strong><\/span><\/a>”<\/p>\n

Stephanie Belser, “Irregular Creatures<\/strong><\/span><\/a>”<\/p>\n

Sroot, “Angels Or Aliens<\/strong><\/span><\/a>”<\/p>\n

Seth, “Three<\/strong><\/span><\/a>”<\/p>\n

Letters Bloody Letters, “The Story Of Dirty Mari<\/strong><\/span><\/a>”<\/p>\n

Michael Montoure, “Control<\/strong><\/span><\/a>”<\/p>\n

Boys Behaving Badly, “The Horologe<\/strong><\/span><\/a>”<\/p>\n

Sparky, “Waiting Ro<\/strong>om<\/strong><\/span><\/a>”<\/p>\n

Valerie Valdes, “Hiss<\/strong><\/span><\/a>”<\/p>\n

Gary B. Phillips, “Mottephobia<\/strong><\/a><\/span>”<\/p>\n

Dan, “Jake’s Wake<\/strong><\/span><\/a>”<\/p>\n

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John Murphy, “Unintended Consequences<\/strong><\/span><\/a>”<\/p>\n

DeAnna Knippling, “The Last Diary Of Doctor Frankenstein<\/strong><\/span><\/a>“<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week’s challenge, which runs from today till next Friday (3\/11\/11) at noon, asks you to take those two words — “irregular creature” — and craft some flash fiction around it. Whatever that phrase means to you, run with it. You’ve got 1000 words. <\/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":[71],"class_list":{"0":"post-8088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","7":"tag-fiction","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-26s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8088","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=8088"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8168,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8088\/revisions\/8168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}