NYC Midnight Flash Fiction Challenge

Since July 31, 2015, I have been eagerly participating in the NYC Midnight Flash Fiction Challenge, which is an international quest to create a short, meaningful piece of fiction within a 48-hour deadline, using an assigned genre, location, and object. The contest is divided into four individual challenges upon which participants are judged and scored to determine who remains in the competition. 

For the first challenge, I was placed into a group with 29 other writers. There are 48 groups, so that amounts to roughly 1,440 participants. My group's assigned genre was historical fiction and it had to be set in an underground bunker, with a bag of coins as the needed object. I wrote a World War II story entitled "The Drill", and it received a decent 8 out of 15 points. 

For my second challenge, still with the same group, I had to create a comedy, set in a nature preserve, with iced coffee as the object. I titled this one "Nailed It", and to my absolute surprise, I received the top 15 out of 15 points (see my previous entry entitled "Nailed It").

At this point, the participants have been reduced from 1,440 writers to 240, and I'm happy to still be in the race!  There are now only 8 groups of 30, and I've been re-assigned to a new group for my third challenge which required me to write a Sci-fi, taking place in a convention center, with pumpkin pie as the object. 

Now the dreaded waiting period looms before me to find out what I have scored and see if I will go on to the final challenge. 

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