First, here’s the prompts for the October 2024 Flash Fiction Draw Challenge. Then my usual long-winded explanation:

A Monster Story

Involving A Rubber Duck

Set at A Cake Shop

Now, on to the details.

Hi! I’m Mike Mayak, I also write as Jeff Baker and I’m the current moderator for the monthly Flash Fiction Draw Challenge, which was started by ‘Nathan Burgoine a few years ago and carried on by Cait Gordon and Jeffrey Ricker. It’s a monthly writing challenge mainly for stress-free fun that anyone can play.

Here’s how it works: the first Monday of every month I draw three cards; a heart, a diamond and a club. These correspond to a list naming a genre, a setting and an object that must appear in the story. Participants write up a flash fiction story, 1,000 words or less, post it to their website and link it here in the comments. I’ll post the results (including, hopefully, one of my own!) My schedule is a little wonky this week so I’m posting it all a day early.

As I’m no good making videos I did the drawing offstage. So, the results were the Eight of Hearts (a Monster Story), the Twelve of Diamonds (A Cake Shop) and the Two of Clubs (A Rubber Duck.) So we will write a Monster Story, set in a Cake Shop, involving A Rubber Duck.

We’ll have the results here in this same space around Monday October 14, 2024.

So, get to writing and I’ll post the results next week! And I’m putting the 2024 Flash Draw sheet at the end of this message, again! (* indicates those have been used.)

Thanks for playing, and I’ll see you in about week!

And have fun!

——mike

Flash Draw Sheet for 2024 (“*” indicates prompt has been used.)

Clubs

*A A Slippery Slide

*2 A Rubber Duck

*3 Warm Woolen Mittens

4 A Snow Globe

5 Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers

*6 A Pepper Mill

*7. A Giant Mallet

*8 A Giant Penny

* 9 A Box of Rubber Bands

*10 A Grapefruit

J A Cellphone

*Q A Dumpster

*K A Comic Book

Hearts

A. Science Fiction

2 A Romance

3 Paranormal

*4 A Mystery

* 5 A Thriller

*6 An Adventure Story

*7. A Bedtime Story

*8 A Monster Story

*9 A Fantasy

*10 A Horror Story

*J A Crime Story

*Q A Melodrama

*K A Legend

Diamonds

*A A Burger Place

* 2 A Herd of Horses

*3 A Roomful of Hats

*4 An Empty Gymnasium

*5 The Temple of Diana In Greece

*6 A Field of Lettuce

7 A Haunted House

8 A Western Ghost Town

9 A Greenhouse

*10 A Giant Teepee

*J A Costume Shop

*Q A Cake Shop

*K An Outdoor Stage