Flash Fiction Challenge: The SubGenre Blender

Last week’s challenge: Must Contain Three Things.

This week is one of my favorite brands of challenge — the subgenre smash-up.

Your goal is simple: pick one subgenre from each of the two tables below (preferably randomly, using either a die or a random number generator) and then mash those two genres up into a single story.

This time around, let’s say you have 2000 words. Write it at your online space, link back here in the comments so we can all see it. You’ve got one week — due next Friday by noon EST.

Subgenre Table 1

Haunted House
Space Opera
Cryptozoological
Sword & Sorcery
Cozy mystery
Dystopian
Zombie
Espionage
Arthurian Fantasy
Vampire Erotica
Greek Mythology
Kaiju
Utopian
Lovecraftian
Extraterrestrial
Conspiracy Thriller
Steampunk
Dieselpunk
Cornpunk
Urban Fantasy

Subgenre Table 2

Weird Tales
Technothriller
Noir Detective
Biopunk
Heist / Caper!
Slasher / Final Girl
Alternate History
Disaster Porn
Superhero
Eco-Thriller
Bumbling Detective
Wild West
Artificial Intelligence
Comic Fantasy
Psychological Thriller
Regency Romance
Magical Realism
Bodice Ripper
Paranormal Romance
Satanic Horror