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Flash Challenge: May 2017
You have control of every person in the world. How did this happen? You can create a back story or it can just be accepted that you have technology in your possession to control every living person on the planet. No more free will…except for you.
Now, what are you going to do with this power.
Some options might be…
- Bring about world peace.
- Make every person on the planet serve your every whim.
- Take revenge on your defenseless enemies.
- Help people fix their problems.
- Make your spouse or lover please you endlessly.
- Start global wars to reduce the world’s population.
- Make yourself the greatest ‘whatever you want’ of all time.
- Make everything right with the world and return control back to humanity.
How long would it take for you to become unhappy with a life without variables and no resistance? What kind of world can you create with this powerful technology?
We’re about to see.
Requirements:
(1) It is hereby your challenge to write a story about your main character coming into possession of technology to rule the minds of everyone on the planet and to show what kind of life you’ve created for our readers.
(2) The story must have a word count of 1,000 words or less, counting every word being submitted, including title, author's name and the words "The End" at the end.
(3) The story must have a title with the author’s name below it.
(4) Keep it clean.
(5) All text must be the same size and font.
You can use italics in your story.
However, no colors, no bold formatting, no artwork or no embedded or external links can be used.
Leave an extra line between paragraphs.
(6) One entry per author.
(7) Everything in your story must be original fiction. Every name, setting/place, business, product, organization etc. must come from your mind and not previously exist prior to this challenge. The fun part of writing is the world building so go and build an exciting one.
Genre Selection:
Aphelion Webzine utilizes three main genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror. It will be your choice which of the main genres you select for your story.
However if you like, you are given the resource of blending any of the following secondary genres into one of the main three.
They are: Comedy/Satire, Romance, Western, Drama, Crime/Detective, Suspense/Thriller, Mystery, Supernatural and Adventure.
Just as long as the story incorporates one of the main three genres.
How To Enter:
Stories must be sent to Daniel Johnson by Private Message, and not posted into the forum. Click on my name and then click on the private message button and paste your story into the text box. Then click submit.
Deadline:
The writing stage of the challenge will be from Sunday April 30, 2017 to 5 pm Sunday May 21, 2017 (Central Standard Time).
The voting stage will be from Sunday May 21, 2017 to 5 pm Sunday May 28, 2017 (Central Standard Time). Voting results will be posted thereafter.
The rules and method of voting will be announced when the stories are posted for voting.
Legal Announcement:
After this month’s challenge, all entries will be reposted in the Flash Archive with the author's names.
Note: Only Registered Members who have posted at least one message may submit a story. Without that one post, the system will not let you send a PM. flash@aphelion-webzine.com
By entering this challenge you are technically granting Aphelion Webzine perpetual electronic rights to post and archive your challenge entries on our site. Otherwise, Aphelion has no claim on any author’s works.