Vignette Fiction Challenge Nonsense (858 hits)
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Submitted by kaos-king (antius777) (View user info) at 2008-04-28 10:19:13 EDT
Vignettes are short, impressionistic scenes that focus on a singular moment, concerning themselves with a character, an idea or a setting. It is not strictly linked in with a sequential plot development but establishes meaning through loose symbolic or linguistic connections. Vignettes are the literary equivalent of a snapshot, often incomplete or fragmentary; image, emotion and character are more important than narrative.
Flash fiction differs from a vignette in that the flash-fiction work contains the classic story elements: protagonist, conflict, obstacles or complications, and resolution. While the term "Vignette" tends to refer to work akin to a theater script or other forms of written performance art, the phrase "Micro-Fiction" is sometimes used. However "Micro-Fiction" is a broad and somewhat undefined term that also seems to include various other types of writing.
"Vignette Fiction" appears to range in length from one to three sentences. It also seems to assume that the reader already has certain pieces of information at their disposal to "Fill In The Blanks" as it were. The following are some examples...
For sale: baby shoes, never worn. - Ernest Hemmingway
Gown removed carelessly. Head, less so. - Joss Whedon
We kissed. She melted. Mop please! - James Patrick Kelly
Epitaph: He shouldn't have fed it. - Brian Herbert
Batman sues Batsignal: demands trademark royalties. - Cory Doctorow
Heaven falls. Details at eleven. - Robert Jordan
Dorothy: "Fuck it, I'll stay here." - Steven Meretzky
The blurred world seen from a merry-go-round settled into place; the merry-go-round suddenly stopped. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
So there you go. Can you come up with a 1 to 3 sentence piece of Vignette Fiction? Trust me, it's harder than it looks. Don't bother making a whole new post, unless you can come up with a bunch - and then link it back here. Hell, discuss the socio-political ramifications of FUSIONFUSIONFUSION or simply make fun of Shlongy.
Regardless, Ghola will be by shortly to tell me why her professors have instructed her on why everything I've said here is obviously incorrect...
User Reviews
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2008-05-07 04:08:09 EDT (#)
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Submitted by pandora (user info) at 2008-04-30 10:34:33 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
"FUCK YOU!!" the kid crowed triumphantly as he stood on the portly bouncer's chest. The red club lights illuminated the black "X" on the kid's hand as he leaned forward and plucked the bouncer's eyebrows rings out one by one, ripping the flesh. "ghola..." the bouncer whimpered. His eyes rolled back in his head and the world went black.
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HA! Fucking spectacular...
Submitted by mockidol (user info) at 2008-05-02 22:52:11 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Like sands through the hour, these are the days of lives.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2008-04-30 10:49:03 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Adamdidit2u (user info) at 2008-04-29 21:32:39 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Fatty found a negative 2: He just placed it in the massive pile with all his other failures.
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HA! Marvelous.
Submitted by pandora (user info) at 2008-04-30 10:34:33 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
"FUCK YOU!!" the kid crowed triumphantly as he stood on the portly bouncer's chest. The red club lights illuminated the black "X" on the kid's hand as he leaned forward and plucked the bouncer's eyebrows rings out one by one, ripping the flesh. "ghola..." the bouncer whimpered. His eyes rolled back in his head and the world went black.
Submitted by ruthless (user info) at 2008-04-29 22:33:40 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Hi.
Submitted by Adamdidit2u (user info) at 2008-04-29 21:32:39 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Fatty found a negative 2: He just placed it in the massive pile with all his other failures.
Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2008-04-29 13:06:48 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by forensicgirl3 (user info) at 2008-04-29 12:03:08 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Here is my vignette, but alas, it is not fiction.
*ahem ahem*
I HAVE A FUCKING CAFFEINE WITHDRAWL HEADACHE AND THE MACHINE IS OUT OF DIET MOUNTAIN DEW SO I HAVE TO WAIT FOR THE BLOODY CAFETERIA TO OPEN BECAUSE EXCEDRIN ISN'T DAMN WELL CUTTING IT!
Thank you.
Submitted by MudWhistle (user info) at 2008-04-29 07:41:13 EDT (#)
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THANKS FOR THE EXPLANATION, TOOL!!
Submitted by orphelia (user info) at 2008-04-29 04:43:18 EDT (#)
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nice idea
Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2008-04-29 02:14:42 EDT (#)
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Look at the trail of desperate nerds sniffing at the fragrant stench of manufactured drama below.
Take your own advice Sam, go outside.
And Bubba?
Stop touching.
Submitted by iddqd (user info) at 2008-04-29 00:07:06 EDT (#)
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Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2008-04-28 17:20:11 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
Submitted by HotWillie (user info) at 2008-04-28 14:57:54 EDT (#)
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ahahaha rob berg gives kaos a -1 on every post now ever since kk told him in a review to please stop with all the blathering, uber-analyzing, boring, redundant shit posts about feelings and semen and wondrous amazing e-scraps that cure impotence and childhood obesity and are filled with butterfly creme and vienna sausages
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If he isn't going to bother to actually read my post and just assume it was the same "boring redundant shit post" then I'm simply going to return the favor.
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bahahaha retaliatory ratings ftw!
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2008-04-28 22:19:03 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2008-04-28 17:20:11 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
Submitted by HotWillie (user info) at 2008-04-28 14:57:54 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
ahahaha rob berg gives kaos a -1 on every post now ever since kk told him in a review to please stop with all the blathering, uber-analyzing, boring, redundant shit posts about feelings and semen and wondrous amazing e-scraps that cure impotence and childhood obesity and are filled with butterfly creme and vienna sausages
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If he isn't going to bother to actually read my post and just assume it was the same "boring redundant shit post" then I'm simply going to return the favor.
I can be petty and dumb just like you Willie... surprising how little effort it takes.
Of greater note - how is it you have such acute knowledge about the rating habits of one Rob Berg?
You are truly a man possessed... I can send you some soiled underwear to sniff if you want.
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Retarded drivel be damned, you still drop the -1.
Submitted by jasumthin (user info) at 2008-04-28 22:09:33 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by beer-turtle (user info) at 2008-04-28 20:59:53 EDT (#)
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One Bottle of Jergens. Three minutes of interracial tranny porn. Another successful date night. -Shlongy
Submitted by Hookhand (user info) at 2008-04-28 20:48:18 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Joss Wheedon auto -2
Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2008-04-28 17:20:11 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
Submitted by HotWillie (user info) at 2008-04-28 14:57:54 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
ahahaha rob berg gives kaos a -1 on every post now ever since kk told him in a review to please stop with all the blathering, uber-analyzing, boring, redundant shit posts about feelings and semen and wondrous amazing e-scraps that cure impotence and childhood obesity and are filled with butterfly creme and vienna sausages
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If he isn't going to bother to actually read my post and just assume it was the same "boring redundant shit post" then I'm simply going to return the favor.
I can be petty and dumb just like you Willie... surprising how little effort it takes.
Of greater note - how is it you have such acute knowledge about the rating habits of one Rob Berg?
You are truly a man possessed... I can send you some soiled underwear to sniff if you want.
Submitted by Wildman (user info) at 2008-04-28 16:52:21 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Bringing you brain-dead writing since 2-10-05
Submitted by HotWillie (user info) at 2008-04-28 14:57:54 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
ahahaha rob berg gives kaos a -1 on every post now ever since kk told him in a review to please stop with all the blathering, uber-analyzing, boring, redundant shit posts about feelings and semen and wondrous amazing e-scraps that cure impotence and childhood obesity and are filled with butterfly creme and vienna sausages
Submitted by beeltea (user info) at 2008-04-28 14:36:33 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I'm in a better mood now. have a zero.
Submitted by Bigmike (user info) at 2008-04-28 14:34:40 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
It tasted a bit like raw sausage. She savored it as she wiped the remnants from her lips, the thought of pennies popping into her head as she followed the trail of gore from her hands to the hole she had ripped into him, just below his navel. "Mmmmmmmmm," was the only sound she could muster as she dove in for more.
Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2008-04-28 13:59:04 EDT (#)
Ranking: -1
No Comment
Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2008-04-28 13:50:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
"what the hell man, if they are coming at you, means they want somethin', more better you look after them and care for them, than they get out on the street uh?"
Submitted by shadow (user info) at 2008-04-28 12:21:20 EDT (#)
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The word had simply been "reject," and all the while she had been anxiously pondering the meaning behind "regret" scrawled at the top of page of transcripts; an entire afternoon's philosophical musings spurred by a typo.
Submitted by beeltea (user info) at 2008-04-28 12:17:09 EDT (#)
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yeah, this was fine until you decided to be a little bitch in the last two paragraphs, which left a "bad taste" in the mouth of your reader. I'm a foul mood as it is, and you just made it worse.
Submitted by ilikesteak (user info) at 2008-04-28 12:13:46 EDT (#)
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Is this supposed to be bleeding?
I don't think it's supposed to be bleeding.
Ohh god, it's bleeding!
Submitted by ghola (user info) at 2008-04-28 12:07:49 EDT (#)
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also, don't capitalize ghola. it frightens me. opressive looking G
Submitted by ghola (user info) at 2008-04-28 12:07:14 EDT (#)
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Submitted by FALLEN (user info) at 2008-04-28 10:39:07 EDT (#)
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I like Balsamic Vignette dressing.
Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2008-04-28 12:02:22 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by F.J.Bell (user info) at 2008-04-28 11:15:22 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
"Its certainly longer than your dad's, but not as thick."
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2008-04-28 11:01:26 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
We collapsed into a sweaty mess of limbs, alcohol and bedclothes. Spent and exhausted, naked and slick as I once was before, I shouldered my lover gently awake and whispered "Thanks, mom."
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2008-04-28 11:01:17 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
wear*
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2008-04-28 11:01:04 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
gayer than those fucking gay chokers you were you retarded fat fuck
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2008-04-28 10:58:08 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
I'm going to have to agree with Wilford Brimley down there
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2008-04-28 10:55:54 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
This is gay.
That's not my comment, that's my entry.
OK, it's also my comment.
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2008-04-28 10:48:08 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
The summer breeze brushed past her as the stood on the balcony.
Moonlight reflected from the metal object in his hand.
Their eyes met.
Submitted by corn_nugget (user info) at 2008-04-28 10:46:25 EDT (#)
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Vignettes are short, impressionistic scenes that focus on a singular moment, concerning themselves with a character, an idea or a setting.
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O RLY!?
Submitted by Banjo (user info) at 2008-04-28 10:42:17 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by doctorj24 (user info) at 2008-04-28 10:39:43 EDT (#)
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Ubersite: Ghola is a twat; pounded relentlessly for fuck's sake.
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2008-04-28 10:39:40 EDT (#)
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yes, thanks...we already had this post a few months back. i believe you had thrown a temper tantrum and temporarily stomped off when that was posted, however, so i guess you wouldn't have known.
Submitted by FALLEN (user info) at 2008-04-28 10:39:07 EDT (#)
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I like Balsamic Vignette dressing.
is that the same thing?
Submitted by HurtByTheSun (user info) at 2008-04-28 10:37:52 EDT (#)
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Fuck this, I'm not entering.
Submitted by SgtHartman (user info) at 2008-04-28 10:36:32 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
police car drives away, mother cries
Submitted by orph (user info) at 2008-04-28 10:34:31 EDT (#)
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Dyslexic: So where's the vinegar?
Submitted by F.J.Bell (user info) at 2008-04-28 10:33:29 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by F.J.Bell (user info) at 2008-04-28 10:33:12 EDT (#)
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Hmmm. An interesting li'l game. How's this:
Woman: Well, the GOOD news is you're not infertile.