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About this Second Campaigner Challenge:
***If you know this stuff already, you can cut to the chase by scrolling to the line of asterisks.***
Prompt 1:
Two people are sitting together under the remains of a concrete bridge. Their backs are against a rusted bridge support. One person’s leg is cut. The other person has wet hair.
Prompt 2:
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Second Campaigner Challenge
Do one or more of the following:
- Write a pitch/logline for a book based on the prompts (less than 100 words)
- Write a short story/flash fiction piece of less than 200 words based on the prompts
- Write a poem with a twist using the prompts as inspiration (in less than 200 words)
- Write a story/poem in five sentences, each sentence based on one of the prompts
- Write a poem/flash fiction piece (in less than 200 words) about the water pear *without* using the words “pear”, “spoon”, or “droplet”.
- Complete at least three of the above activities and tie them all together with a common theme (feel free to either state the theme in your post or leave us to guess what it might be)
- Write in a genre that is not your own
- Ask Challenge entrants to critique your writing. After the Challenge closes, you may wish to re-post your revised piece(s), and I’ll include a Linky List at the bottom of this post for those wishing more feedback on their revisions (note: revised entries will not be judged, so please label clearly your original post and your revisions. Please do not offer critique unless someone asks for it, as per the usual blogging conventions. If you do ask for critique, make sure you ask for it clearly so people know you want it, and please be prepared to receive feedback that may not be 100% glowing. If you are a critiquer, please be tactful and courteous, and remember to provide positives as well as negatives.)
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“That didn’t blow up easily, did it?”
I laughed,
though it was mostly out of nervous tension instead of amusement.
Noticing a small
trickle of blood oozing across the ground toward my leg, I asked, “You okay
with that cut?”
Xayne shrugged. “It’ll
heal. You sure you ain’t gonna catch a cold, being all wet like that?”
“Yeah.”
He leaned back
against one of the few remaining supports, and I saw a few pieces of rust fall
into his hair as he hit the corrugated surface.
Someone squealed.
“Stupid kids,”
Xayne muttered, closing his eyes.
I craned upwards
to see a group of children already exploring the scraps of bridge left behind
from the blast. I felt like shouting a warning as a particularly brazen one walked
too close to the edge, but an older boy hauled him away.
Xayne said a moment
later, “Think he’ll get the message?”
“If an exploding
bridge ain’t enough, then he’s even more insane than the Leader thinks he is.
Which would mean we’re in pretty deep.”
“Thought that
was already established.”
“True. Sending a
lethal, acidic pear simulacrum to the hospital disguised as a food donation was
damned low.”
Stats:
Used Prompt 1, Prompt 2, Prompt 3, and Prompt 4
Flash fiction under 200 words (196)And now, to choose an "added difficulty/challenge", I'm going to ask you to critique my entry. I probably won't post the revised one, but it would great to know what you think. Don't spare my feelings, either--rip away. :)
I'm #81 on the Linky List.
-----The Golden Eagle
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