Wednesday, October 8, 2008

New Story Challenge: Four Items

Quickly, pick a set of words below and write a story—as naturally as possible—in three pages involving all four items.

1. Car, Hat, Knife, Sunday
2. Kitchen, Jar, Scarf, Blue
3. Los Angeles, Sandals, Snow globe, March
4. Bar, Toothpick, Book, Piano
5. Coffee shop, Kite, Shoes, Thanksgiving
6. Gloves, Department store, Nuts, Wind
7. Dog, Hill, Car, Snow
8. Cantaloupe, Notebook, Pliers, Field glasses (binoculars)
9. Cell phone, Park, Birds, Lightening
10. Sign, Stick, Child, Siren
11. CD, Beer can, Tambourine, Snake
12. Mask, Tears, Whistle, Thursday
13. Hand, Cleveland, Blazer, Singing
14. Akron, Fire engine, Horse, Baseball
15. Hammer, Baby, Cricket, Baseball cap
16. Fourth of July, Dancers, Horn, Raven
17. Darkness, Skeleton, Laughing, Scent
18. Comic book, Limp, Striking, Orange
19. Rocks, Sky, Prehistoric creature, Crawling
20. Blow-up toy, Broken up love, Station wagon, Rope

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I write short stories and essays. I have published well over one hundred stories, essays, and flash fictions or nonfictions in magazines or anthologies, as well as a novel, Jack's Universe, three collections of stories, Private Acts, Killers & Others, and Not a Jot or a Tittle, and two chapbooks of flash fiction, Shutterbug and Dragon Box. I grew up in a military family, so I'm not from anywhere in particular except probably Akron, where I've lived for forty years. Before I came here, I never lived anywhere longer than three years.