by Charli Mills | Oct 17, 2019 | #FFRODEO, Flash Fiction Challenge
What is a story? We all tell them, and as writers, we craft them in the written word. A story is about Something that happens to Someone, Somewhere. It’s plot, character, and setting. A story has a beginning, middle, and end. Because we are hardwired for...
by Charli Mills | Oct 16, 2019 | #FFRODEO, Flash Fiction Collections
Writers faced the bullpen at the Rodeo with the rip-snorting task of combining three pro-bull names into nouns and mashing them into two genres — game show and pirate. They faced, rode, and wrote Bodacious, Nose Bender, and The Heartbreak Kid onto the stage, the...
by Charli Mills | Oct 10, 2019 | #FFRODEO, Flash Fiction Challenge
Where else would you find a bull-riding flash fiction 99-word contest but at Carrot Ranch? Come on, all you pencil crunchers, gather ’round and listen to a tale. My dad rode bulls. His dad and his dad’s dad rode bulls. My second great-grandfather wore...
by Charli Mills | Oct 9, 2019 | #FFRODEO, Flash Fiction Collections
Tall tales aren’t just for contestants. Some writers took to telling whoppers like they were alligators born to drive golf carts. Some tall tales are less flamboyant. The following are submissions as challenges (not contest entries) to the Rodeo #1: Modern Tall...
by Charli Mills | Oct 3, 2019 | #FFRODEO
Out west where I grew up, to tell a tall tale was to tell a whopper of a lie so big no one would ever believe it. Someone would start the storytelling, and the next person would try to out-exaggerate the last one. Some told tall tales as a joke, especially if an...
by Charli Mills | Oct 3, 2019 | #FFRODEO
The 2019 Flash Fiction Rodeo begins October 3 (TODAY!) and remains a free-to-enter series of contests. Here’s the contest schedule: Oct. 3 (11:59 pm EST): Modern Tall Tales (entries due Oct. 9, 11:59 pm EST) Oct. 10 (11:59 pm EST): Pro-Bull Mashup (entries due Oct....
