Which means our son was born two weeks early<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\nSo, getting a flash fiction challenge up was not on my “to-do” list that day.<\/p>\n
BUT WE’RE BACK. After all, the baby’s out, so he’s pretty much on his own now. What? Tough love, baby. It’s a hard world. I duct taped a little spear into his rubbery hands and painted him up like Braveheart.<\/p>\n
He’ll figure it out.<\/p>\n
In the meantime, let’s sign up a hot tasty new flash fiction challenge, one with a little extra juice on the line in the form of FREE E-BOOKS.<\/p>\n
The Challenge<\/h3>\n
Flash fiction, 1000 words. The subject?<\/p>\n
“An unexpected guest.”<\/strong><\/p>\nInterpret that as you see fit.<\/p>\n
Any genre is apropos.<\/p>\n
You have one week. I’ll want all entries done up and linked to here by noon (EST) next Friday (6\/3\/11).<\/p>\n
You know the drill: write it on your own blog, link back to here if you’re so kind, then drop a link to your<\/em> blog here in the comments section of this very post. Ta-da!<\/p>\nThe Free E-Books<\/h3>\n
Assuming we have more than 10 entries, I’ll pick my favorite 10 out of the bunch. Those writers can have a free copy of either IRREGULAR CREATURES<\/strong> or CONFESSIONS OF A FREELANCE PENMONKEY<\/strong> in PDF, Kindle, or Nook format. Just make sure to have your tales in under the deadline.<\/p>\nAnd that, squids and squallops, is all she wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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