Inaugural Flash-Style Flash Fiction Battle

2 Writers step into the ring

Greetings, Greetings, Greetings! Fellow word worms and pulse punchers!

Our inaugural flash-style fiction contest awaits you.

The first contest consists of no champions!

The challenger,

Andrew Robert Colom

, sent out a missile, daring anyone on Substack to a Flash-Style Fiction Battle.

Sandolore Sykes

, the worthy and dangerous competitor, was the first to declare herself willing and confident of her victory.

Saturday, October 12th, 1:00 PM (EST), check it out, read the work, pick a winner.

How it works:

Flash-style is flash fiction written on a time clock with the express purpose of dueling another fiction writer.  

The writers are given 3 hours to create content with 250 - 500 words that tell a story.

The content can have a visual, audio, animated, and or artificial intelligence component.  

This publication will start a chat thread for each battle. There will be a moderator assigned for the contest.

The Moderator leads the discussion to help the chat come up with three specific things to set the prompt: 

Time (this can be as abstract as Pre-historic times, or as specific as Christmas 1972) 

Location (can be as abstract as North America, or as specific as a beach in Dakar) 

Random (anything random to make the stories unique. This can be as specific as a pink barn, or as abstract as sadness in times of strife) 

This conversation should be 15 minutes between the moderator and whoever joins the chat.

Then the writers take 3 hours to write a 250 to 500 word story using the three prompts. 

The moderator starts the chat again 3 hours later. 

The writer presents their story to the chat.

The moderator helps facilitate a discussion of both works.

The moderator helps facilitate a poll on the winner of the Flash-Style Contest.   

Saturday, October 12th, 1:00 PM (EST), check it out, read the work, pick a winner.

Join at 11:00 AM (EST) to help the moderator pick the three prompts