Flash Fiction Challenge: “It’s X Meets Y!”
Last week’s challenge: Who The Fuck Is My D&D Character?
As I have noted in the past, I love that some writers describe their stories — usually in an elevator pitch or to sell the story to an agent, editor or reader — as “THIS STORY meets THAT STORY.” Right? “Oh,” the writer says, “It’s like CATCHER IN THE RYE meets SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS.” And you’re like, whoa, what the fuck does that even mean.
Today, we are going to find out.
Below, you’ll find two columns, each of 20 different fairly well-known properties.
You will randomly choose one from each column either by d20 or random number generator.
Then you will literally fill in the variables of the equation:
IT’S LIKE X MEETS Y.
And you will write the resultant story.
You have — let’s go with 2000 words this time around.
Write the story. Post on your blog or online space. Drop a link here so we can all read it. The stories will be due and ready one week from now — next Friday at noon EST.
Note: your goal is not to literally mash these up in fan-fiction (though I suppose if that’s where your head goes, hey, I can’t stop you) — the goal is to take the idea, the spirit of the combination and make them into a story all your own. What is the theoretical mash-up look like and feel like? Diggit? So, what’s the story like if you get: “It’s like HARRY POTTER meets INDIANA JONES?” Or, “It’s like GAME OF THRONES meets SCOOBY DOO.”
Smash them together, see what original story squishes out.
Ready? Set? Write.
COLUMN X
Terminator
Seinfeld
Lord of the Rings
When Harry Met Sally
Jurassic Park
Watership Down
The Matrix
John Carpenter’s The Thing
James Bond
Thomas the Tank Engine
Transformers
Harry Potter
Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Fast and the Furious
Being John Malkovich
Frozen
Top Gun
Rambo
Game of Thrones
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
COLUMN Y
Star Wars
True Detective
True Grit
Toy Story
Die Hard
Scooby Doo
Friday the 13th
The Avengers
Star Trek
50 Shades of Grey
Super Mario Brothers
Indiana Jones
Alice in Wonderland
Twilight
Jaws
Titanic
Back to the Future
The Godfather
Charlotte’s Web
The Hunger Games
