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Date: 06-13-2023
Word Limit: 1000
Words Written: 13,203
Judges (crits):
Cephas
sebmojo
Obliterati
Cephas
sebmojo
Obliterati
Week Archivist:
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a friendly penguin
Last week we had the post-apocalypse. Let's keep the ball rolling! Oh shit, oh shit, the ball is rolling in a weird and unanticipated direction!
The prompt.
This week we're tackling Hopepunk.
Wikipedia posted:
Hopepunk is a subgenre of speculative fiction, conceived of as the opposite of grimdark. Works in the hopepunk subgenre are about characters fighting for positive change, radical kindness, and communal responses to challenges.
I want to see a scene, 1000 words or less, in which one character is helping another through a hard time. There must be some imaginative, non-realist element present in the scene for it to fit the prompt.
Remember, this is speculative fiction, so something about the world has to be different from our own. Make it scifi, fantasy, alternative fiction, horror, whatever. And it's a single scene, so no narrative hopscotch allowed.
Flash.
For an extra 200 words, I will give you the setting that the scene is currently taking place in.
The prompt.
This week we're tackling Hopepunk.
Wikipedia posted:
Hopepunk is a subgenre of speculative fiction, conceived of as the opposite of grimdark. Works in the hopepunk subgenre are about characters fighting for positive change, radical kindness, and communal responses to challenges.
I want to see a scene, 1000 words or less, in which one character is helping another through a hard time. There must be some imaginative, non-realist element present in the scene for it to fit the prompt.
Remember, this is speculative fiction, so something about the world has to be different from our own. Make it scifi, fantasy, alternative fiction, horror, whatever. And it's a single scene, so no narrative hopscotch allowed.
Flash.
For an extra 200 words, I will give you the setting that the scene is currently taking place in.
13 Total Submissions, 3 Total Failures:
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7.
10.