Posts Tagged Short Story
Flash Fiction: The Paradox
Posted by DLThurston in Flash Fiction on July 25, 2012
Getting a late jump on a Wendig challenge, but finally got my story in mind. This week the challenge is time travel, in any way shape or form. So let’s do this.
Flash Fiction: The Wondering Chamber
Posted by DLThurston in Flash Fiction on July 13, 2012
Time for another Chuck Wendig challenge. This week it’s simple, write a story of up to 1000 words of less that starts with the sentence “The noticed android walks past a wondering chamber.” Of course, I spent a good time mentally outlining a story that featured a wandering chamber. Let’s do this.
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Flash Fiction: Escape from Io
Posted by DLThurston in Flash Fiction on May 11, 2012
This week Chuck Wendig has challenged us with pulp.
Crazy pulp shiznit.
Because it’s awesome.
So!
Your task this week is to go apeshit.
To go moonbat.
To go cuh-razy with the over-the-top pulp weirdness.
Whatever that means to you — “pulp insanity” — just run with it. For up to 1000 words.
Perfect, this let me work out a few, uh, issues that I’ve had while listening to an audiobook version of A Princess of Mars. So join interplanetary adventurer Jack Lincoln in his Escape From Io.
Flash Fiction: Dinosaur Hall
Posted by DLThurston in Flash Fiction on May 4, 2012
This week the Chuck Wendig challenge celebrates the release of Dinocalypse Now with the theme of DINOSAURS! It’s the typical 1000 word cap, must include dinosaurs in one way or another. Check out the links others are putting up for their stories back at Terrible Minds.
And do check out The Memory Eater on Kickstarter. Just over a week left, and we’ve still got a march ahead.
Flash Fiction: Death and Bob
Posted by DLThurston in Flash Fiction on April 15, 2012
Getting back into the Chuck Wendig challenge after a week off. Today’s theme, Death.
You have 1000 words to write a short story that prominently features death. What that means is up to you, of course. And genre is also in your court.
But a death — or the concept of death, or an exploration of death — must be front and center.
So without further ado, Death and Bob.
Flash Fiction Week: Among The Trees
Posted by DLThurston in Flash Fiction on March 30, 2012
Deep breath, and exhale. Welcome to day five of my five-day Flash Fiction week. The last item on Chuck Wendig’s list of settings is a Fairy Tale Forest. Of course, it’s Friday again, which means he has another challenge up. Because he’s a sick twisted bastard that way.
No, you needn’t write fiction in which you lie to yourself, but you must write fiction in which the characters lie to one another. The deception is the thing, you see? Every story thrives on conflict same as yeast thrives on sugar and bears thrive on honey (provided it was first stuffed in the chest cavity of a fleeing park ranger). Your task today is to make the core conflict of the story based upon or orbiting around a terrible lie.
Alright. Fairy Tale Forest. A lie that drives the story. Let’s journey Among the Trees.
Day One: First Times
Day Two: Ride the Time Vortex
Day Three: Finding a Way
Day Four: Above it All
Flash Fiction Week: Above it All
Posted by DLThurston in Flash Fiction on March 29, 2012
Today’s challenge location takes us to a penthouse apartment overlooking the apocalypse.
Day One: First Times
Day Two: Ride the Time Vortex
Day Three: Finding a Way
Day Five: Among the Trees
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Flash Fiction Week: Finding a Way
Posted by DLThurston in Flash Fiction on March 28, 2012
Day three of the flash fiction challenge brings on the setting of the bottom of the ocean.
Day One: First Times
Day Two: Ride the Time Vortex
Day Four: Above it All
Day Five: Among the Trees
Flash Fiction Week: Ride The Time Vortex
Posted by DLThurston in Flash Fiction on March 27, 2012
Day two of the settings challenge takes us to an abandoned amusement park.
Day One: First Times
Day Three: Finding a Way
Day Four: Above it All
Day Five: Among the Trees
Flash Fiction Week: First Times
Posted by DLThurston in Flash Fiction on March 26, 2012
I’m doing something a little different this week. A little more…masochistic. The current Chuck Wendig challenge is to write a story set in one of five provided settings. I also tend to max out at five posts a week, so I figured, what the hell? Why not do all five? I’ll post them one per day for the rest of the week, in the order provided in the challenge.
Lunar Brothel
Abandoned Amusement Park
The Bottom of the Ocean
Penthouse Apartment during the Apocalypse
Fairy Tale Forest
Am I mad, perhaps, but pushing comfort zones is part of being an author, and trying to write five good flash pieces like this, it’s certainly pushing the comfort zone.
Day Two: Ride the Time Vortex
Day Three: Finding a Way
Day Four: Above it All
Day Five: Among the Trees