When I was writing Ticket Ninja last week I realised I was writing it with a particular gimmick, for want of a better word. Specifically, I’ll ask you this: was Tods male or female?*
It inspired me to extend the Weekly Flash Fiction Challenge to include a fourth restriction, that of a technical constraint. Something that restricts how the story is written, rather than what it’s written about. For example, it might be that it has to be written in second person, or from the point of view of a sock. Maybe it’ll be a restriction on a certain word, like ‘and’ or ‘but’. This obviously could cause a clash with the other restrictions, such as if the word ‘and’ can’t be used and the dialogue has ‘and’ in it, but we’ll deal with that when it happens.
In the meantime, here are this weeks restrictions:
Title: Broken Integrity
Genre: Suspense
Dialogue: “I’m winning the bet three nil.”
Technical: Must be written like a journal, diary or log.
Expect Broken Integrity later in the week.
*It’s left ambiguous.