Flash Fiction Challenge: It’s ABC Meets XYZ!

Last week’s challenge: “Choose Your Random Words“

So, this week’s challenge is going to be awesome.

SHUT UP IT WILL TOO.

Here’s what’s going to happen.

I’m going to list 20 different pop culture properties — books, movies, comics.

You’re going to randomly choose two and mash them up into a piece of ~1000-word flash fiction.

Here’s why — because whenever I read reviews of my books or whenever you pitch a film to somebody you always mash up two wildly different properties to give a feel for what it is. (As I’ve noted elsewhere, Blue Blazes often gets called Goodfellas meets Lovecraft meets The D&D Monster Manual.) It’s a fun way to envision a story, so boom, that’s what we’re doing here.

Note: the result should be thematic and stylistic, not actual mash-up fanfiction. (Again, envision you take your story into a pitch meeting and to pitch it, you combine two seemingly unlike pop culture properties. It’s like that.)

Story due by Friday, June 14th, noon EST.

Post at your online space. Link back here.

Here’s the list. Choose two or pick ‘em randomly with a d20 or random number generator.

Casablanca
Die Hard
Breaking Bad
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
The Maltese Falcon
Terminator
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Star Wars
Game of Thrones
The Handmaid’s Tale
Batman
The Stand
Neverwhere
The Godfather
Planet of the Apes
Rosemary’s Baby
Arrested Development
The Walking Dead
Reservoir Dogs
Pride & Prejudice