Four writers. Four elements. Three days. Five hundred words.

This is the Iron Writer Challenge! I’m going to write a flash fiction story using the elements thrown down, Iron Chef style, in three days. I’m up against three other writers taking the same challenge. I signed up weeks ago, and today’s the kickoff, the clock is ticking.

I opened the site to see what the elements are.  Go ahead, look at the following link and see for yourself.  Go on, I’ll wait.

http://theironwriter.com/2013/03/07/challenge-3-march-14-2013/

So, I can handle most of those. But really? “A Chechem Chaka Tree“? That’s just cruel, it’ll take a good chunk of those paltry 500 words just to tell the reader what that is!

Well, wish me luck. I already have a glimmer of an idea…