Here's the final list of the stories done for The Fast Fiction Challenge 2010. After roughly a hundred a year written every year since 2005, I did something different this year - One hundred and fifty stories in one hundred and fifty days...

The challenge was, as you'll recall, the same as usual:Reply with a title (maximum of four words) about ( Read more... )

Ladies and Gentlemen, the 150th and final story in The Fast Fiction Challenge 2010

Title: "You're Having My..."
Word: positive
Challenger: Abbie Synth
Length: 200 words exactly The anger was expected, the harsh laughter was not ( Read more... )

Title: Lick My Love Pump1
Word: no word offered
Challenger: @drwildhare
Length: 200 words exactly She sat in her cabin, staring at the four handwritten words on the sheet of paper in front of her; she'd decoded the communication herself, as instructed, and had then performed the task again, unwilling to accept at first that her deciphering skills ( Read more... )

Title: A Long Way Down
Word: exalted
Challenger: Wil Wheaton
Length: 200 words exactly I beat my first woman to death at twenty-three. She was forty-two, full of hate and prejudice, but that wasn't why I killed her.

My brother... now he thinks I kill for the money. That's a contemptible view: I worked hard to learn how to kill and I feel exalted ( Read more... )

Title: The Latin For Seven
Word: shag
Challenger: Jez Barnett
Length: 200 words exactly The lawyer sat behind the long oak table, witnessing the destruction of his career, and admired the deep shag pile carpet ( Read more... )

Title: Bring It On Winter
Word: mute
Challenger: @LunaTinx
Length: 200 words exactly Winter, to me, is always the loneliest of seasons ( Read more... )

Just a quick couple of things to say about this year's challenge.

1. First the big one: I've decided to end this year's challenge at story #150. That'll be one hundred and fifty stories in one hundred and fifty days. One story a day for one hundred and fifty days. There are several reasons, but the main one is that it seems 'right' to end it now after ( Read more... )

Title: Dead Time
Word: gypsy
Challenger: angelic_mystic
Length: 200 words exactly The waiting had begun to irritate him, which he knew was a bad sign ( Read more... )

Title: A Little Fluff Goes...
Word: aural
Challenger: @ TheUrbanKittehs
Length: 200 words exactly After so many years of duty, no-one was overly surprised when The Old Man, as he was nicknamed by his troops, began to act a little strangely ( Read more... )

Title: The Pink Crazy Spider
Word: exuberant
Challenger: Cheryl Liptrott
Length: 200 words exactly It was a very quiet laboratory: very quiet and very clean. Visitors and inspectors often commented on that when they arrived ( Read more... )