It Goes Down Smooth: The Shackleton's Scotch Flash Fiction Results

The other day, I said: "Hey, you. That's right. You. With the clown shoes. And the iguana. And the faint aroma of spoiled milk. It's time to write a flash fiction challenge based on Shackleton's Scotch."

And somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 of you crazy motherfookers stepped out of the shadows and tossed your flash fiction down on the stage and were like, "BOOM goes the dynamite."

Or something.

Anyway, below I present to you the mighty Shackleton's Scotch challengers — it's some good stuff, so do yourself and them a favor, click on over and read away.

Before I present those links, I'll ask: did you dig the challenge? Do you want more excuses to write flash fiction? Let me know. I could be convinced to do this again.

These Playas Be Ice Cold

(If the fiction had no title listed, instead of going with "untitled" I'm instead listing them with, most frequently, the first sentence of the piece. Also, I'm listing them in the order they were received.)

Josin McQuein: "First You Run Out Of Food, Then Fuel"

Dan O'Shea: "Shackleton's Hootch"

Albert Berg: "The Stone Saucer"

McDroll: "Whisky Island"

David Blakeley: "Inner Child On Forgotten Scotch"

Levy Montgomery: "That Single Fly's Foot"

Adam Maxwell: "Bullet Time And The Beer Taxi"

Me Myself And I: "I Don't Drink Anymore"

John Kenyon: "Endure"

Sparky: "Booze Run"

Billy Prophet: "Shackleton's Scotch"

CY Reid: "The Best Laid Plans"

Marc Nash: "Drying Out"

Ben Kirby: "Last Case Run"

KD James: "Scotch On The Rocks"

Sean Preston: "Distillation"

Gary E. Weller: "Mackinlay's Samba"

Paul Vogt: "Gun Nut"

C.M. Stewart: "Snotrunningly"

Aiwevanya: "Jeannie In A Bottle"

Shullamuth: "A Paean To Spring"

Frank McBride: "That Box My Brother And I Buried"

DeAnna Knippling: "A Fly In Amber" (use purchase code QN26W)

Rob Hart: "Stealing Shackleton's Scotch"

Madison: "Three Men On A Snow Day"

Anthony: "Shackleton's Magical Whiskey"

Orange Tango: "He's Not Sure Why He Went To The Bar"