Saturday, August 15, 2020

Blurbs of the Entries to #WEP June 2020 Challenge: Urban Nightmare

 I fancied to write blurbs for the stories of Urban Nightmare season of Write... Edit... Publish... [WEP] Flash Fiction challenges. But as nightmare continued I could not come up with the blurbs in time.  Yet I have written. :)


 GROUND ZERO (Flash Fiction) by Denise Covey: A city by a nuclear spillage site. It turned empty later. It was where experiments conducted on human endurance to radioactivity.

Lethal Weapons (Flash Fiction) by Yolanda Renée: An abusive marriage. Mysterious friends. Mysterious death of an abusive husband and later his wife. All linked to a deep instinctive cruelty.

My Happy Home (Flash Fiction) by Yolanda Renée: A woman’s husband cheated on her. She punished her husband. But she prevented her family from an evitable break up. Instead she gave her family an opportunity of staying together for ever.

Write … Edit … Publish … Bloghop/IWSG hop:Urban Nightmare (non-Fiction) by Hilary Melton-Butcher: Worries about ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, reminiscence of Francisco Goya’s The Sleep of Reason cannot Produce Monsters and promise of endurance to see beautiful future.

Urban Nightmare (Flash Fiction) by Olga Godim: A suffocated neighborhood. A toddler suffering from Asthma and his desperate mother. All relived by a pro bono spell of Monnet.

Out of Mind (Flash Fiction) by Sanhita Mukherjee: A lonely information technology worker in Amphan hit evening of lockdown due to COVID-19 pandemic lost her life to urban mismanagement.

Fangsto Mars (Flash Fiction) by J. Lenni Dorner: A prisoner escaped death. A president was killed by a vampire aide. The next in line was about to succumb to another blood sucking vampire but was saved by democratic governmental procedures.

Pigeon.Panic. Pandemic. (Non-fiction) by Nilanjana Bose: A sub-human avian, like humans, is driven by urge of returning home. Human beings built up cities after agriculture and art. Art preceded agriculture. Yet genius Vincent Van Gogh moved to urban cityscape, Paris and succumbed to nightmares.

Inthe Streets (Poetry) by L. G Keltner: The world has seen death and destructions, overcome prophesied dates of apocalypses. Present trial of time, too, will pass if goodwill gathers to fight all ongoing human ailments.

Urban Nightmare (Flash Fiction) by Sonia Dogra: Gossamer was a game development company. All its products revolve around urban nightmare. The owner of the company was deemed expert on urban nightmare by national leadership and was invited in a meeting.

The Widow (Flash Fiction) by Shannon Lawrence: Kasey coaxed Milo to a meeting at Milo’s den, guarded by is men. Would Kasey succeed in avenging her husband’s murder and staying alive afterwards? How? That’s the story’s journey.

Urban Nightmare (Flash Fiction) by Jemima Pett: Animal instinct of survival, as individual, as race, as family, as gene pool, as parent during times of scares resources and heightened struggle – intraspecies and interspecies.

The Kidnapping (Flash Fiction) by Pat Garcia: Zelda and Beno responded to a scream and sob, amidst disappearance of half a dozen female of different age from their neighborhood. Beno had his suspicions and he worked on it.

Blame (Flash Fiction) by Sally: A rat, his explorations in time of scarcity and its capture by a rat catcher, then demise in a laboratory. Years later the rat catcher confessed to progeny that that the rats were killed for nothing.

*** COULDN’T REACH THE SITE   by Kalpana

Opting out (Flash Fiction) by Susan Baury Rouchard: New York City, hustling, bustling, regular chaotic life and loss of it. In the climax it reaches destruction of ultimate urban fad in cellu lar technology.

Driving Home (Non-fiction) by Toi Thomas: A poetic compilation of US mainstream media narrative about situation of African American teenagers, men and occasionally women, including Mexican women and other Latinas.

Remember the Words (Poetry) by Jemi Fraser: A countdown to home. Like instructions to organs, hiding in between blocks like shadow. Yet facing the question of identifying oneself.

West Holpry (A chapter from The Yadira Chronicles) by Naught Netherland Press: Serab was captured for petty theft. He was driven towards the prison by King Qweh. Onlookers were jabbering about fate of the captive and power of the captivator. Serab reminisced his best friend.

An Urban Nightmare (Poetry) by Karuna: A Unicorn, a king and folks all ends in basic moral questions of eternity.

Her Urban Nightmare (Poetry) by Carole Stolz: She escaped violence when she was fourteen and ended up in violence and rape by men even after half a decade.

An urban Nightmare (Flash Fiction) by Cindi Summerlin: Karl was losing weight. He was suffering from parasomnia. There were physical changes. Those changes confused him. Those change lead him to transformation.

Custody Chain CHAPTER THREE – CRYPTOGRAPH by Roland Clarke: Kama and Sparkle were interviewing Urien. It revealed Csilla’s escape from post-Soviet Hungary and Tesni’s identity. It left a hint about motive of Urien’s attacker, though it eluded clues about identity of the attacker. Also, it mnemonics of Sparkle.

Sally's Urban Nightmare (Flash Fiction) by Jamie: A whimsy daughter keeps her mother always on her toes. The daughter fells climbing a dresser, the mother gets scolded for not watching the daughter carefully. The mother prepares food for her recuperating daughter, the daughter escapes mother’s apartment.

URBAN HORROR (Flash Fiction) by Dixie Jarchow: Two siblings in a deserted house with their mother in their life deserted by father met unknown souls in neighboring cemetery. A soul tried to harm, the other helped recover.

Untitled (Continuation of Lisa and Pierce’s Story) by D M Hanton: The sneeze irked Lisa. She made Pierce leave. Hallucinated Pierce went through weird series of events where impersonated a king surrounded by enemies who were in real world were helpful passerby and police.

Man or Monster? (Flash Fiction) by Christopher Scott: An interesting encounter between a policeman and a serial killer where the serial killer quenches thirst of killing some paranormal creature with the help of the policeman.

 Urban Nightmare? (Flash Fiction) by Helen Mathey-Horn: Chuck met some time travelers in his well monitored, tight scheduled, systematically controlled cubiclized workplace. He fed them what he was about to feed his friends. They returned in gratitude something which made Chuck excited. Yet he used this excitement only to enhance performance of his ongoing project.


2 comments:

  1. Thanks so much Sanhita. I enjoyed reading the blurbs which you created while caring for your father. I have added the link in our email due to go out when the sign up post goes live. I hope I see you there for the LONG SHADOW challenge!

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  2. So nice of you Denise. Surely looking forward to the LONG SHADOW challenge day after tomorrow.

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