I know there are tons of challenges out there as we speak, but I’ve had this one bottled up for weeks, & it’s driving me craz…
A sequel to Diabolically Villainous Challenge
Ridcully Calvert's inspiration
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Chat-room predator [Diabolically Villainous Challenge] used:
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Like a rat in a cage used:
There was absolute silence from the trees, and yet an entire black ops team had shed their parachutes, adjusted their gear, a…
A sequel to About as Thinly Concealed as Katy Perry's Lesbianism
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Batten down the hatches used:
Two hundred twenty miles away, three jet-black stealth planes carved racing stripes through the sky. Each was cocooned in sev…
A sequel to The Raveners Are Coming! The Raveners Are Coming!
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Batten down the hatches used:
There was absolute silence from the trees, and yet an entire black ops team had shed their parachutes, adjusted their gear, a…
A prequel to About as Thinly Concealed as Katy Perry's Lesbianism
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Damned if you do, and double damned if you don't used:
“Barnes. How many civilians are in there?” Griggs sighed, cradling the handset.
“Griggs, no.” Novua slammed his laptop close…
A sequel to Negotiate My Arse
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Damned if you do, and double damned if you don't used:
Two hundred twenty miles away, three jet-black stealth planes carved racing stripes through the sky. Each was cocooned in sev…
A prequel to The Raveners Are Coming! The Raveners Are Coming!
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Experimental Ficlet No 11 used:
............If I did it would turn out the same, always the same…..........
A sequel to Experimental Ficlet No. 10
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Experimental Ficlet No 11 used:
...................Or maybe it would turn out the same as the time I tried to be emo…..........
A prequel to Experimental Ficlet No. 12
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I would do anything for love, but... {sing song challenge} used:
I’ve decided to present a challenge to all y’all out there.
~Take a song (or a line from a song), and write a story from it….
A sequel to Sing-Song Challenge!
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Organising the procedure [Unexpected twist challenge] used:
Ok, I know there are a few open challenges right now, and we really don’t need another one, but too bad. The stars align.
To…
A sequel to Unexpected Twist Challenge [Results Posted]
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Establishing a base used:
“You joined up with the Coalition of Nefarious Distinction expecting booze and babes? What are they teaching you kids at coll…
A sequel to Instructions Not Included
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The long hunt [Supporting characters challenge] used:
Many moons ago, I worked at UPS, loading and unloading packages onto trucks. It was an ordinary and monotonous job, but while…
A sequel to Great Supporting Character(s) Challenge (The Big 250)
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The goon gets on my nerves used:
“What the hell was that?” I spoke aloud to myself, not expecting any reply.
“Stay away from me.” It was the lame goon. In th…
A sequel to Into Hiding
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The goon gets on my nerves used:
“You joined up with the Coalition of Nefarious Distinction expecting booze and babes? What are they teaching you kids at coll…
A prequel to Instructions Not Included
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Country drag queens used:
PREGNANT DRAG by andrew
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Unexplained feelings of guilt used:
Aletta and I were walking Kitkat down the road one night. He got stir crazy cooped up in the flat all day, and the only way t…
A sequel to Lightgasm
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Desert Sect used:
A prophet's job is never done...
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Page 12 used:
You decide to try to explain, in spite of your swollen tongue.
“Looft, offiserth. Tsst not whuth it loofts light,” you say,...
A sequel to Page 8
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Page 23 used:
Still trying to translate half of what Skeletor is saying, you figure you might as well prove yo’self worthy to da gang by cr…
A sequel to Page 16
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Nanobot offensive used:
As the goon started to reach for his radio, I ran full tilt in his direction. I lowered my shoulder and drove it deep into hi…
A sequel to Never Trust A Big Butt And A Smile
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Nanobot offensive used:
“What the hell was that?” I spoke aloud to myself, not expecting any reply.
“Stay away from me.” It was the lame goon. In th…
A prequel to Into Hiding
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Lightgasm used:
After coming to in the park, I dashed for home. In between hiding in hedges, stealing trash-can lids to cover my nether regio…
A prequel to Unexplained feelings of guilt
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A chance encounter used:
one. ugly. monkey. by Chris Corwin
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Caught! used:
“Those bastards! Come on now, that was just bush league,” Jen’s voice shook with anger.
I had certainly misjudged her. She …
A sequel to Stick the Landing
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Caught! used:
“Traitor? What the hell you talking about? Untie us.” I tried to hide the panic in my voice as I struggled to break free from…
A prequel to I'm Dealing With Morons
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Troops, what troops? used:
From: Fischer, Ishmael
To: Rannigan, Frederick
Cc: Talbot, Jim; Cevik, Marco
Importance: HighSubject: RE: Deploym…
A sequel to Up to Spec
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Troops, what troops? used:
I found myself surrounded by a throng of melting UN Special Forces agents and low level programmers. Next to me, Jen stood fr…
A prequel to Beta Testing
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Back to the salt mines used:
As I watched the back of the LeSabre fade into the distance I realized it was probably for the best.
I managed to convince h…
A sequel to Incentives
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Back to the salt mines used:
After a couple hours weeding through the maze of garbled English that is GlobTrak’s guidance system, _doesn’t anyone comment …
A prequel to Checking Out the Competition
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Ridcully Calvert's quiz answers [Random quiz] used:
NEW AND IMPROVED!
CRUNCHIER!
NOW WITH….
MORE FLAVOR!
Iiiiiiiit’sA new Insert Pen Name Here random quiz!
(yay!)1. ...
A sequel to NEW QUIZ!!!
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There goes that idea used:
I had little choice but to ignore the cry from below as the monster who now controlled the fate of my child appeared once mor…
A sequel to Threats and Delegates
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There goes that idea used:
“I’m not sure what you mean.” Angela closed her copy of Cosmo and laid it on her lap. “What do you mean… steps?”
Staring so…
A prequel to The Hardest Part
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Stand-up comedy: In line at the pharmacy [Make me laugh challenge] used:
It was bound to happen sooner or later. Today I wrote my 150th ficlet. So, it seems that it’s about time for another challeng…
A sequel to Make Me Laugh Challenge
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Time is on your side [Song paroday challenge] used:
I don’t really have any reason to do a challenge, but I had a cool idea.
I challenge anyone who wants to make a parody of a s…A sequel to Please Parody Challenge!
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The brotherhood enters the fray used:
The chaotic cacophony was getting louder and louder. “Leia hates your guts! Leia hates your guts!”
“Just ignore them, honey,...
A sequel to Star Wars: A Heart To Heart
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The brotherhood enters the fray used:
The mob was able to dispatch of the first wave of storm troopers quite easily. But the Brotherhood of Mutants was another sto…
A prequel to Star Wars: Holy Flying Jehovah, Batman!
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A mysterious package used:
I took the long way home, intentionally avoiding the highway. I needed time to think and find a way to break the news to Ange…
A sequel to Paying The Price
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A mysterious package used:
“Good evening Mr. Lawson,” the bust of a man spoke to me through the television. “I will assume that you know who I am, or ra…
A prequel to Sending A Message
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Back to the death star used:
“The Death Star, really? Hell,” Captain Hiller said, handing each person in the ka-tet a cigar, “I’ve done crazier things. Re…
A sequel to Star Wars: Aboard The Millennium Falcon
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Back to the death star used:
As the Millennium Falcon approached the Death Star something weird happened. “I can’t control the ship,” Hiller admitted.
“I…
A prequel to Star Wars: A New Plan
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Into the meeting used:
“You’re late!” she enthused. “Come on, its time for the staff meeting.”
I could not believe how excited this otherwise sophi…
A sequel to A new job
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A new job used:
We walked into a modern amphitheatre, with seating for maybe a hundred people. It was packed.
On the stage a clean cut young…
A prequel to Into the meeting
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A new job used:
“Phil, there you are! Everyone, welcome your new team captain Phil.” It was Tom speaking, the short, exuberant fellow that ha…
A prequel to The Same Old Life
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An unexpected meeting [Twilight challenge] used:
Chaaaallllaaaaannngggeeeee
So here’s the thing. I haven’t done a challange in a while so I figured why not? AND this ficlet…A sequel to Twilight Challange(140) {CLICK THE BUTTON!!! DOOO ITTTT!!!!}
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Daemonic Device [BARomero's nameless challenge] used:
Okay, so this challenge was inspired by Melia’s Ficlet, Mmmmmm… (6 m’s? yeah), hence I’m prequeling it with this challeng…
A sequel to What is the Challenge?
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Solly's task becomes clearer, or does it? used:
I sat at my cheap chipboard and fake veneer desk and watched the pedestrians walk past my tiny glass-fronted office in Long s…
A sequel to Cyber snooper solly gets a job
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The sacrificial victim used:
This one isn’t easy. Each consecutive sentence must be one word longer than the previous sentence. You can start with as many…
A sequel to One More Word Writing Challenge
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Cyber snooper solly gets a job used:
“So, what is your name?” I enquired as we drove over the hills into the leafy suburbs nearby.
His big BMW purred like a cat …
A prequel to Solly's task becomes clearer, or does it?
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Zoulag grabs a hold used:
Just when I thought things were moving along a fine path, my situation seems to have taken a turn for the worse. First, I’ve …
A sequel to Zoulag to the Rescue
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Interview with a zombie used:
<snick>
Hmm, it appears I’ve been outflanked by a lifetoid. By the sounds of it, some sort of handheld weaponry is current…
A sequel to Doomed Montague
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Interview with a zombie used:
Just when I thought things were moving along a fine path, my situation seems to have taken a turn for the worse. First, I’ve …
A prequel to Zoulag to the Rescue
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Dinosaur Dilemma used:
To commemorate my ooh, what could it be? what might be worth commemorating? 3,000th comment _yes, he said comment. So odd, ...
A sequel to The Don't Get Defensive Challenge
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Inside the house used:
Zoulag was pawing at a window again. He always did that, but it never seemed to work
Me? I’m by the door, groaning, “Brrrraa…
A sequel to Intelligently Undead
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Inside the house used:
<snick>
Hmm, it appears I’ve been outflanked by a lifetoid. By the sounds of it, some sort of handheld weaponry is current…
A prequel to Doomed Montague
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On the road (again?) used:
Howard took the teen’s stunned silence and kicked as hard as he could, launching the teen assassin and her feline master into…
A sequel to The Cat in the Pack
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Dark thoughts in a light place used:
The sun set hours ago, but it was still light...
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A transformation occurs used:
I sat inside the elevator-sized escape pod silently, trying to accept what was coming… my death, the Arvians’ eventual suce…
A sequel to On the brink of death
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A transformation occurs used:
The pod slammed into the Arvian cruiser, the impact throwing us around like ragdolls, even in our newly advanced form. Then t…
A prequel to Interesting
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The chickens come home to roost used:
As the two boys sat in holy reverence of the pilfered tome, Sean wondered about what his friend had said. Philosophically spe…
A sequel to Philosophical Questions and Vampire Tomes
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Hypocrisy is alive and well used:
Cape Town 2008. Mrs Calvert and I are watching television.
As usual, all 97 channels have commercials on at the exact same t…
A sequel to [Challenge] Terrible Commercials
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A pure dose [Ficlet Number CL Challenge] used:
I have finally reached the point of no return. That point was actually the day I wrote my first Ficlet but here I am on numbe…
A sequel to Ficlet Number CL: A Cup of Inspiration
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[Challenge] Terrible Commercials used:
The sun scorches down on the blasted plain. Where a few short years ago verdant grass had warred with riverside lilies, now t…
A prequel to Hypocrisy is alive and well
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[Challenge] Terrible Commercials used:
A man and woman on a beach walking at arms length from each other.
A male voice over is heard talking:
“Does your breath…A prequel to Terrible Commercial Challenge: Bad Breath Begone
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[Challenge] Terrible Commercials used:
_Two men are at a shooting range. The first man, holding a pistol, empties a clip into a target with astounding speed and pre…
A prequel to Commando Marvin Lifelike Magnum Model Commercial
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[Challenge] Terrible Commercials used:
“Do you have too much stuff? Are you cold? Are you tired of chopping wood and then having nothing to do with it afterwards?”
...A prequel to Prometheus Industries (commercial challenge)
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[Challenge] Terrible Commercials used:
scene One
Girl 1: (Acidentally spills some soda) Oh no! I’ve spilled some of my soda!
Girl 2 (which was me) : Hi Sheryl…
A prequel to Straws! (a commercial we made in 3rd grade) [Terrible Commercial challenge]
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The (familiar?) reality used:
You are walking down the road in the city, minding your own business, and suddenly everything goes to hell. Balls of fire, ca…
A sequel to The realist's guide to surviving a zombie attack
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Digital Dawn: Chapter Seven (R_C) used:
With a shudder of revulsion, Markram shouldered past the…zombies? No, not zombies. Oddly-behaved people, that was it. Keepi…
A sequel to Digital Dawn: Chapter Six (R_M)
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[Challenge] Baby Names used:
Alene felt the first pangs of labor pains, while her husband, Lt. Aherne assured her on video screen from Mars, that all woul…
A prequel to Nyssa :The First Arrival
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[Challenge] Baby Names used:
Everything in the hospital was in shades of white and green; a sterile sort of look, but this baby made it all come into colo…
A prequel to Her Name is Paige
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[Challenge] Baby Names used:
He walked into the hospital and imediately smelled it. That hospital smell. He hated that smell. He was at a meeting at work …
A prequel to Full of Hope
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[Challenge] Baby Names used:
“So have you decided on a name yet?”
I sat down, glad to get off my feet. I was in my eighth month and my ankles were _reall…
A prequel to Pickle [Baby Name Challenge]
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[Challenge] Baby Names used:
My hand on my ever increasing belly, my husband holding me around the waist as we walk through the nursery. The cries of the …
A prequel to Babies [Name Challenge]
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[Challenge] Baby Names used:
Julia. When the name rattles around my head these days it’s either as I list regrets or am trying to write her song.
Julia t…
A prequel to Julia
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[Challenge] Baby Names used:
She was sitting by the pond, pondering how she should handle the news of her big brother’s addiction. He had always been such…
A prequel to Freedom to be You
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[Challenge] Baby Names used:
The lady walked through the shelves, delicately running her fingers over, but not quite touching the spines. Her face looke…
A prequel to The Librarian's Dilemma
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[Challenge] Baby Names used:
Jane.
Her name thrilled me, almost as if an amazing song was playing over and over in my head…or maybe like getting an A+...
A prequel to Jane [baby challenge]
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[Challenge] Baby Names used:
What covers us, shows off for us, has colour and imagination? We look up to it, we fly into it, We harness the wind, marvel a…
A prequel to Skye's the limit
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[Challenge] Baby Names used:
“She’s got blue eyes like the sea
And a smile just like me
(Or so her mother says)
But that’s not why I love her
_No …A prequel to Abigail, Her Father's Joy
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[Challenge] Baby Names used:
Lyla is a name that flows through the wind when it rolls off your tongue.
Whenever i hear this name, i picture a beautiful …
A prequel to Lyla
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[Challenge] Baby Names used:
Her parents sat in the audience, their eyes were filled with tears of pride. They watched their daughter, Grace, leap across …
A prequel to Amazing Grace {Name Challenge}
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[Challenge] Baby Names used:
“How about Kara?”
“No.”
“Diana?”
“No.”
“Lana?”
“No.”
“Lois?”
“Peterrr…”
“Okay, okay… How about Mary Jane?”
“No.”...
A prequel to A Comic Shop Owner Expecting His First Child...
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Digital Dawn: Chapter Five (R_C) used:
The six months passed with agonizing slowness. Dr. Markram did what he could on the project with the budget he had, sometimes…
A sequel to Digital Dawn: Chapter Four (R_M)
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Digital Dawn: Chapter Five (R_C) used:
With a shudder of revulsion, Markram shouldered past the…zombies? No, not zombies. Oddly-behaved people, that was it. Keepi…
A prequel to Digital Dawn: Chapter Six (R_M)
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The realist's guide to surviving a zombie attack used:
All right, it’s been a long time since I’ve made a challenge. Also, most people reading this are new enough they don’t even r…
A sequel to Now, when Was the Last Time You've Had a Good 'Ol Stovohobo Challenge?
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The realist's guide to surviving a zombie attack used:
“Look at this moron” Jake expectorated while flipping through a pile of pages recovered during their last food / ammo / goods…
A prequel to The (familiar?) reality
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Starting used:
I refuse to be ignored...
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Evading the cat used:
“You have it?” Dean asked eagerly, fidgeting from one foot to the other on the front porch.
“Of course. When I promise, I del…A prequel to A Book Between Friends
