Right, welcome to the first of who knows how many flash fiction challenges. Rules are simple. Once a week I’ll post a challenge here. You then get one week to write and post a flash fiction piece at your online site. Leave a comment below to where it is so people can check it out.
This is, of course, shamelessly stolen from when Chuck Wendig ran these at terribleminds.com. I at least got a few pieces out of that.
So for this week’s challenge: the sub-genre smashup. Pick (or randomly decide) one sub-genre from each list. Your goal is to create a complete story out of the result. Let’s say 2k words, max. Deadline is 12 pm Eastern Time, 3/28.
Good luck!
Sub-Genres
- Weird West
- BDSM
- Grimdark
- sword-and-planet
- Jungle adventure
- Occult
- Body Horror
- Southern Gothic
- Hard-boiled
- Paranormal Romance
Category 2:
- Alternate History
- Cyberpunk
- Space Opera
- Cosmic Horror
- Diesel Punk
- Espionage
- Heist
- Ghost story
- Military sci-fi
- Superhero
Final word – feel free to tag back to this post and share it around with anyone you think might be interested.
Dark Perceptions 
Hi! Glad I ran into your tweet – this was fun. Hope to see what everyone else did :thumbs up:
https://tjmarquis.wordpress.com/duran-gets-jacked-a-short-story/
Great challenge, thanks so much! Got me focused, and it was fun to write something I’d never tried before.
https://lizybee.wordpress.com/2020/03/28/matthew-gomez-flash-fiction-challenge-sub-genre-mash-up-of-southern-gothic-and-cosmic-horror-cotton-farmer/
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I’m late on my own challenge. That’s just terrible.
https://mxgomez.wordpress.com/2020/03/28/flash-fiction-incident-on-copernicus-station/