…a one-hour prompted flash-fiction challenge, tonight (Friday the 13th) at 9 pm EST. I’ll post a prompt at 9 pm and you have until 10 pm to write a 0-1000 word story based on it. You don’t have to post your results in the comments, although you’re welcome to do it, and we will praise you and hand out pretend cookies like it’s a little kid’s tea party.
Here’s your prompt! We’re using “The Octopus World” by the excellent Heri Irawan.
Feel free to use any aspect of the prompt in any way. Have fun, and be sure to check in at 10 pm EST!
ETA: TIME! I got a 750-word piece about mermaids. How’d you do?
Amanda C. Davis 
January 13, 2012 at 10:05 pm
While this looked very fun, sadly the time frame is right when I’m watching Fringe and also roleplaying… alas, my multitasking skills do not extend further than that.
That is an EXCELLENT piece of art, though! I likes. 😀
January 13, 2012 at 10:15 pm
Me too! Save it if you want it, though, I’m taking it down so as not to infringe too hard on the artist’s rights.
January 13, 2012 at 10:16 pm
*tucks it away in a folder for shiny things*
January 13, 2012 at 10:09 pm
Not well! I probably have 1K of false starts all together, but the only semi-coherent thing is just barely over 500 words. 😦
January 13, 2012 at 10:14 pm
😦 Maybe you can pull something out of one of those starts.
January 13, 2012 at 10:21 pm
Possibly. It was about the train that’s rounding the lower bend of the octopus arm, and the engineer driving it, and the giant porpoise. It was…slightly odd.
January 13, 2012 at 10:23 pm
Coffinmouth is currently paying 5 cpw for “slightly odd”. Except by “slightly” they mean “VERY.”
January 13, 2012 at 10:12 pm
Mine is more of an outline than flash and needs to be turned into a longer story (I was never very good at flash) but it was about a modern-day art student’s search for the work of a sinister decadent Czech painter from 1920s Prague… I wasn’t actually familiar with Heri Irawan at all and didn’t look up his name till about 45 minutes in only to discover he was Austrian–must’ve been something about his work that tripped the Central Europe trigger in my brain. Good prompt and fun–thanks!
January 13, 2012 at 10:14 pm
I would totally read that!
January 13, 2012 at 10:20 pm
I’ll let you know if I manage to turn it into a viable piece of fiction!