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Writing Prompt: The Henchmen

The answer, like an awkward boner, is a little surprising.

Here’s our first prompt for October’s We Need a Hero!

This is a wide-sweeping collaboration month.

We threw down the gauntlet and said to you send us your worst.

“Write a damn good, bad guy.”

You gave us 11 evil geniuses, homicidal maniacs and nefarious inner demons. These are those villains. They will join the halls of evergreen prompts, waiting for any writer to take them down.

But for this month we needed the Top 4

We let the crowd decide.

We let the reader proletariat, the word-hungry populus, tell us who they thought we should try to defeat with the pen.

In the end, it really helped to be first out the gate, and have an army of fans. FJCMontenegro, you and I didn’t crack the nod, but we can still take down these punks.

🥁 So with a drum roll and a little further ado…

Our fourth favorite villain is a tie! 🎉

In this the first round, you need to take down one of these henchmen to get to the next stage. Each guards one of the routes toward the inner sanctum.

Pick your foe and lay them out!

Junior Henchmen

Well, isn’t this awkward? It’s a parody? It’s satire. Dammit Smillew!

Rocky Shores you better beat yourself up over this.

Senior Henchmen

A little Sweet Chaos goes a long way. Ah you picked the harder route, the stronger villain and the faster level up. Take her down and grab the XP!

*If we did a tie-breaker, using total claps, Rogue here would be the winner. But well, I like giving Rocky Shores uphill so… So he’s the least favorite villain.

The diet coke of evil.

All the villains will collect on this list

Rules:

1. 100–1000 words for the story bits.
2. Tag your story as you like, e.g. Fiction or Flash Fiction But don’t use Writing Prompts please.
3. 🙏 link back to the prompt so others can find it too.

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