One Year of Instants

One Year of Instants is an anthology of flash fiction inspired by prompts from C M Weller's readers and followers on Tumblr.

The stories in this anthology were collected in 2013, and published on pay-what-you-want scheme. It is illegal in Australia to make money from selling fanfic, so the author is dependant on your largesse when purchasing your copy of this anthology.

Titles in this anthology include:
 * Challenge #00001: Sara with a Manual while on Ordeal
 * Challenge #00002: Toad V Spiderman
 * Challenge #00003: One Fine Evening in a Villainous Pit-trap
 * Challenge #00004: They Fight Crime
 * Challenge #00005: When You Meet a Stranger
 * Challenge #00006: Be Were
 * Challenge #00007: Baaa-d Science
 * Challenge #00008: Uncareful Wish
 * Challenge #00009: The Perils of Channel-Surfing
 * Challenge #00010: Obligatory Gender Bender
 * Challenge #00011:  To Catch a Geek
 * Challenge #00012:  Date Night
 * Challenge #00013: Verdammt!
 * Challenge #00014: P.B.L.T.B.H.
 * Challenge #00015: Tough Shells, Soft Hearts
 * Challenge #00016: Worst. Date. Ever!
 * Challenge #00017: Don't Go Breakin' My Heart
 * Challenge #00018: Murder in the Sheets
 * Challenge #00019: Chosen By the Gods
 * Challenge #00020: Screw Loose
 * Challenge #00021: One Hazardous Evening in the Basements of the Xavier Mansion
 * Challenge #00022: Siracha… Cha Cha Cha
 * Challenge #00023: About a Girl
 * Challenge #00024: On the Heartbreak of Flotsam
 * Challenge #00025: Movie Madness
 * Challenge #00026: Young Love, Stay Love
 * Challenge #00027: I Spy
 * Challenge #00028: Knick-knack, paddywhack…
 * Challenge #00029: One Nasty Evening on the Mountains of Mad Science…
 * Challenge #00030: Don't You Cry, Baby Mine
 * Challenge #00031: Helpmate
 * Challenge #00032: Like Sands Through the Hourglass…
 * Challenge #00033: Mad-Anon
 * Challenge #00034: Julie and Nanny
 * Challenge #00035: Baby Monster
 * Challenge #00036: Good Intentions
 * Challenge #00037: Not My Fault!
 * Challenge #00038: Wanted Hair Problems
 * Challenge #00039: Whither Shall I Wander
 * Challenge #00040: Where Art Thou, Daughter?
 * Challenge #00041: The Doctor is in
 * Challenge #00042: The Shocking Truth.
 * Challenge #00043: The Noodle Incident(s)
 * Challenge #00044: Life's Great Mystery
 * Challenge #00045: Time is Money
 * Challenge #00046: Trial of Error
 * Challenge #00047: Introducing Senator Summers
 * Challenge #00048: Daring Rescue
 * Challenge #00049: Weather the weather.
 * Challenge #00050: The Fall of Matthews
 * Challenge #00051: Wrecking the Grade Curve
 * Challenge #00052: The Weekend Larp Involved Pirates vs. Astronauts, Snow, and Weaponised Fruit, so Here Are Some Prompts Inspired by Real Events.
 * Challenge #00053: The Perils of Temporal Interference
 * Challenge #00054: InA-WithA-WhileA
 * Challenge #00055: Cry Me a River
 * Challenge #00056: Appreciation
 * Challenge #00057: Slow Progress
 * Challenge #00058: Human is as Human Does
 * Challenge #00059: Unlikely Treasures
 * Challenge #00060: Zen and the Art of Renovating
 * Challenge #00061: Nice Guy Syndrome
 * Challenge #00062: Nice Guy Becoming Good Guy
 * Challenge #00063: One Fine Day During the Festival of Live Performances
 * Challenge #00064: Got three for you today(1).
 * Challenge #00065: Got three for you today(2).
 * Challenge #00066: Got three for you today(3).
 * Challenge #00067: Ooh, ooh, another one!
 * Challenge #00068: Post meltdown
 * Challenge #00069: Exploitation
 * Challenge #00070: Looking Back, Looking forward
 * Challenge #00071: Power Struggle
 * Challenge #00072: Strengths
 * Challenge #00073: Eldritch
 * Challenge #00074: Dingy, Dire, Depressing
 * Challenge #00075: Ch-ch-ch-changes...
 * Challenge #00076: Whoa! Sorry, it usually doesn't do that...
 * Challenge #00077: Lactose Tolerance
 * Challenge #00078: One Fine Day in Xavier's Institute for Gifted Youngsters
 * Challenge #00079: Just a Chocolate Bunny
 * Challenge #00080: One Fine Day in the Seasonal Candy Store
 * Challenge #00081: White W(h)ine
 * Challenge #00082: The Green-Eyed Monster
 * Challenge #00083: Graduation
 * Challenge #00084: The Muse Woos
 * Challenge #00085: By the Book
 * Challenge #00086: Dance!
 * Challenge #00087: They Fight Crime
 * Challenge #00088: The Ninth Step
 * Challenge #00089: My Apologies for the Pun
 * Challenge #00090: Happens Stance
 * Challenge #00091: The Inherent Perils of Silly Season
 * Challenge #00092: Faith in Humanity...
 * Challenge #00093: Um... Whoops
 * Challenge #00094: Pax Adriens
 * Challenge #00095: Long Green
 * Challenge #00096: Pretence
 * Challenge #00097: Glee?
 * Challenge #00098: Well, That's Unusual...
 * Challenge #00099: Time Cop's Dilemma.
 * Challenge #00100: Sapient's Rights
 * Challenge #00101: Clean energy
 * Challenge #00102: Star Trekking across the Universe...
 * Challenge #00103: Rich Fantasy Lives
 * Challenge #00104: ...And I feel fine.
 * Challenge #00105: Wake Up Call
 * Challenge #00106: One Fine Day in the Xavier Mansion's Sub-Sub-Basements
 * Challenge #00107: Patience
 * Challenge #00108: Imperial China... Dragons?
 * Challenge #00109: Stole This From a Book
 * Challenge #00110: One Fine Day in the Computer Lab
 * Challenge #00111: One Fine Day in a Ren Faire near Bayville
 * Challenge #00112: Science Project
 * Challenge #00113: Ohai We're From the Internet
 * Challenge #00114: One Fine Day in the Cubicle Labyrinth
 * Challenge #00115: Faction Fraction
 * Challenge #00116: A Line For Sara
 * Challenge #00117: A Scene in the Library
 * Challenge #00118: One Fine Day on a Planet That Looks a Lot Like a Quarry Somewhere in England
 * Challenge #00119: Letter v Spirit
 * Challenge #00120: Impressions
 * Challenge #00121: And That's Why a Platypus.
 * Challenge #00122: Beside Myself.
 * Challenge #00123: Strategy and the Zen of Faking it
 * Challenge #00124: A New Take on an Old Classic.
 * Challenge #00125: Philip K. Dick Said it Best:
 * Challenge #00126: Be Interested to See What You do With This One:
 * Challenge #00127: One Fine Day in the Diplomatic Offices
 * Challenge #00128: A Blessing? Or a Curse?
 * Challenge #00129: "I'm Impressed"
 * Challenge #00130: Why Would You Do This to Me?
 * Challenge #00131: Conversations on the Twilight Zone
 * Challenge #00132: Once Upon a Nightmare
 * Challenge #00133: Creep
 * Challenge #00134: Ding, Dong, Is The Witch Really Dead?
 * Challenge #00135: Ethical Heroism
 * Challenge #00136: Monster in My House
 * Challenge #00137: One Fine Day in a Play Park
 * Challenge #00138: Wrong Call
 * Challenge #00139: Offerings of Embarrassment
 * Challenge #00140: Just Like Her Father
 * Challenge #00141: Elves Don't Live Forever.
 * Challenge #00142: Failure Fret
 * Challenge #00143: But Not My Hero
 * Challenge #00144: FicWar Prompt
 * Challenge #00145: Through Dangers Untold
 * Challenge #00146: One Fine Day in Transylvania Polygnostic....
 * Challenge #00147: Angst in Eyeliner
 * Challenge #00148: Discovery!
 * Challenge #00149: Mein Kinder
 * Challenge #00150: Bad Decisions
 * Challenge #00151: Never Let Them Have a Holodeck
 * Challenge #00152: Worse Decisions
 * Challenge #00153: Unlikely Tales From the X-Mansion
 * Challenge #00154: Payback, the Bitch
 * Challenge #00155: One Stormy Evening at Genracon
 * Challenge #00156: Really Bad Decisions
 * Challenge #00157: Young Knights and Old Soldiers
 * Challenge #00158: Foiled Again
 * Challenge #00159: By the Power of Capsaicin…
 * Challenge #00160: In Just Seven Days…
 * Challenge #00161: And Never No More, I'll Go Sailing
 * Challenge #00162: Roll Up
 * Challenge #00163: From Zero to Disaster
 * Challenge #00164: Spark Roast Coffee
 * Challenge #00165: Creative Problem Resolution
 * Challenge #00166: Off With the Show
 * Challenge #00167: Clothes Maketh the…?
 * Challenge #00168: Love and Apologies to Mr Watterson
 * Challenge #00169: Typical Table Talk
 * Challenge #00170: What You Wanted
 * Challenge #00171: I'm'unna Do It
 * Challenge #00172: The Dangerous Onkel Wolf
 * Challenge #00173: Lost and Finding
 * Challenge #00174: Don't Bottle Things up - Bottles Can Break so Easily.
 * Challenge #00175: Ideosyncratic Biology
 * Challenge #00176: One Fine Afternoon in the Halls of Higher Education
 * Challenge #00177: Taken From a Conversation
 * Challenge #00178: Foreign Cuisine
 * Challenge #00179: One Fine Afternoon in Downtown Bayville
 * Challenge #00180: Biggest Fans
 * Challenge #00181: Paraphrasing Zaphod Beeblebrox....
 * Challenge #00182: Live to Therve
 * Challenge #00183: An Affront Taken Aback.
 * Challenge #00184: Paraphrasing Zaphod Beeblebrox, pt. 2
 * Challenge #00185: A rather hairy dilemma.
 * Challenge #00186: One Alarming Afternoon in Stark Tower
 * Challenge #00187: A New Drop Bear-like Story.
 * Challenge #00188: Somewhere, over....
 * Challenge #00189: Those Who Harm
 * Challenge #00190: Time Out From That Good Fight
 * Challenge #00191: One Tempestuous Evening at Club Haxx
 * Challenge #00192: Apt Curse
 * Challenge #00193: #1
 * Challenge #00194: #2
 * Challenge #00195: #3
 * Challenge #00196: Awareness of Food
 * Challenge #00197: Impossible Aftermath
 * Challenge #00198: Miss Tiggy
 * Challenge #00199: Beat the Beat
 * Challenge #00200: Non-Hostile Takeover
 * Challenge #00201: Monster!
 * Challenge #00202: Everyday Miracles
 * Challenge #00203: Spiritus in Machina
 * Challenge #00204: You're in Good Hands With Mawlitt-Badlii
 * Challenge #00205: A Kiss of Home
 * Challenge #00206: Haunted
 * Challenge #00207: Whoops, Banned Again
 * Challenge #00208: Through Dragon's Eyes
 * Challenge #00209: Letter and Spirit of the Law
 * Challenge #00210: What All Girls Should Know
 * Challenge #00211: Un-Powered
 * Challenge #00212: Creative Outlet
 * Challenge #00213: Réve-olutionary
 * Challenge #00214: "Now, That Makes...Sense."
 * Challenge #00215: Dining with... Omnivores.
 * Challenge #00216: Prepared.
 * Challenge #00217: Emotional... Promotion
 * Challenge #00218: Typhoon
 * Challenge #00219: More of Danny's World!
 * Challenge #00220: Icky-what?
 * Challenge #00221: "How Super Are We All, Really?"
 * Challenge #00222: Goodbye, Good Boy
 * Challenge #00223: Drained
 * Challenge #00224: Tempus Flakkit
 * Challenge #00225: Relics
 * Challenge #00226: More of Danny's World!(2)
 * Challenge #00227: Wedding Jitters
 * Challenge #00228: Tea and Scales
 * Challenge #00229: It's not easy being us...
 * Challenge #00230: Wonderlust
 * Challenge #00231: On the Disposal of Sex Aids
 * Challenge #00232: Ancient Terran Tradition
 * Challenge #00233: The Morning Show with Patty
 * Challenge #00234: Aftereffects of Tequila
 * Challenge #00235: We're Mostly Harmless, I Swear!
 * Challenge #00236: A Lake Appeared in Winsome Valley
 * Challenge #00237: Tenpool Lottery
 * Challenge #00238: Intricate details
 * Challenge #00239: Dealing with fridge thieves
 * Challenge #00240: Weighty Problems
 * Challenge #00241: Pressed Seconds
 * Challenge #00242: Stop, in the name of cheesecake!
 * Challenge #00243: Elemental, my dear...
 * Challenge #00244: Didn't We Already Fix That?!
 * Challenge #00245: Household Gods
 * Challenge #00246: One Fine Afternoon Just Outside the Danger Room
 * Challenge #00247: One Beautiful Morning at the Bi-Annual Fair
 * Challenge #00248: Learning Curve
 * Challenge #00249: Meter and Rhyme
 * Challenge #00250: Craftsmanship
 * Challenge #00251: More Deadlier...
 * Challenge #00252: What Monsters Hath Science Wrought?
 * Challenge #00253: Birds of a Feather
 * Challenge #00254: Terror Watch
 * Challenge #00255: Be Careful What You Wish For
 * Challenge #00256: I'm Sorry, We Can't Help You
 * Challenge #00257: Honey, and Plenty of Money
 * Challenge #00258: The Wall and the Hypocri-sea.
 * Challenge #00259: "Why We Won't Stop Fighting For Our Right To Purity"
 * Challenge #00260: What a Wonderful World
 * Challenge #00261: Meeting as Equals
 * Challenge #00262: "Well, Sweetie..."
 * Challenge #00263: Bubbles in History
 * Challenge #00264: Foiled Again
 * Challenge #00265: One Fine Afternoon at the Student Labs of Transylvania Polygnostic University
 * Challenge #00266: Moebius Repair
 * Challenge #00267: Getting (Gender)Bent
 * Challenge #00268: Pour Encourager Les Autres.
 * Challenge #00269: Non-Hostile Takeover(2)
 * Challenge #00270: Learning the Ropes
 * Challenge #00271: No, bad dog!
 * Challenge #00272: Vamping it Up
 * Challenge #00273: Heroic
 * Challenge #00274: Rule 9 for Life
 * Challenge #00275: So sharp...
 * Challenge #00276: Mundane Utility: The Sequel
 * Challenge #00277: Anomalous Behaviour
 * Challenge #00278: On the Folly of Tailored Worlds
 * Challenge #00279: Peck of Dust, Dust, Dust...
 * Challenge #00280: "Awwwww!!!"
 * Challenge #00281: Den of Iniquity
 * Challenge #00282: Welcome Walter's Metal Men
 * Challenge #00283: See where this bit of commenting takes you...
 * Challenge #00284: One Overcast Evening in the Middle of an Apocalypse
 * Challenge #00285: The Kindness of Strangers
 * Challenge #00286: You Overhear the Strangest Things From Public-Phone Conversations Sometimes...
 * Challenge #00287: All Things Ridiculous and Human
 * Challenge #00289: Since I Know You Got Started Writing DS9 Stuff...
 * Challenge #00290: For When Holy Water Just Won't Do...
 * Challenge #00291: How I Have Felt, on Occasion.
 * Challenge #00292: Because Science is Amazing.
 * Challenge #00293: Failure Modes
 * Challenge #00294: A Line From Pacific Rim.
 * Challenge #00295: Sound advice.
 * Challenge #00296: Another Corollary to Clarke's Third Law
 * Challenge #00297: A Corollary to Clarke's Third Law
 * Challenge #00298: Yet _Another_ Corollary.
 * Challenge #00299: The Whole Set
 * Challenge #00300: Found This Somewhere.
 * Challenge #00301: Death and Ding-Dong Ditchers
 * Challenge #00302: So, How're Those Plotbunnies Coming Along?
 * Challenge #00303: In Response to a Sight.
 * Challenge #00304: Weapons-grade Vocabulary.
 * Challenge #00305: Proooobably a Mad Scientist, Rather Than the Regular Kind
 * Challenge #00306: Something I found difficult to type.
 * Challenge #00307: It's Not Called That Anymore.
 * Challenge #00308: The First AI Gains Sentience.
 * Challenge #00309: Extinction is Such a Cheery Thought, Isn't it?
 * Challenge #00310: Seen on a Gravestone.
 * Challenge #00311: Also on a Gravestone.
 * Challenge #00312: The Body Language Gap
 * Challenge #00313: One Other Clarke's Third Law Thing.
 * Challenge #00314: One Good Turn Deserves Another - a Good Samaritan Winds up With Superpowers as a Result.
 * Challenge #00315: Pay Attention
 * Challenge #00316: Immovable Object
 * Challenge #00317: Ekkritism
 * Challenge #00318: Downhill From There
 * Challenge #00319: Sing-along
 * Challenge #00320: Common Band
 * Challenge #00321: Some Questions Should Remain Unspoken.
 * Challenge #00322: In Memorium
 * Challenge #00323: Homo S. Cuisine
 * Challenge #00324: Cupcakes! Cupcakes! Cupcakes!
 * Challenge #00325: Amphibious
 * Challenge #00326: But is it Art?
 * Challenge #00327: Those Pesky Living Authors
 * Challenge #00328: The Unnypical
 * Challenge #00329: A Gru-some Predicament
 * Challenge #00330: ...and Wherefores
 * Challenge #00331: Old Wars, New Combatants
 * Challenge #00332: Fool Me Twice
 * Challenge #00333: Unexpectedly Useful
 * Challenge #00334: Wark
 * Challenge #00335: Look at This Photograph...
 * Challenge #00336: The first Christmas in Space
 * Challenge #00337: To Be a F.A.I.R.Y
 * Challenge #00338: Vulnerable
 * Challenge #00339: The Real Reason Why You Don't Cross Your Own Time Stream
 * Challenge #00340: The Return of Wark
 * Challenge #00341: The Thin Man
 * Challenge #00342: Send Me an Angel
 * Challenge #00343: Accomplished Only While Drunk
 * Challenge #00344: Wild Goose Chase
 * Challenge #00345: Trigger Warning: Domestic Violence
 * Challenge #00346: Legal Consult
 * Challenge #00347: Didn't This Happen On Star Trek?
 * Challenge #00348: The Perpetual Talk
 * Challenge #00349: Aviasaur
 * Challenge #00350: Australian Things
 * Challenge #00351: Found This in Another 'Fic.
 * Challenge #00352: Seen in Another Fic (Take Two)
 * Challenge #00353: The Case For Doing Your Homework
 * Challenge #00354: Three People on Tumblr
 * Challenge #00355: Tell Me How to Get... How to Get to...
 * Challenge #00356: Designated Victim
 * Challenge #00357: Average Ordinary Every-Day...
 * Challenge #00358: New Take on an Old Saw.
 * Challenge #00359: O...MG Tannenbaum
 * Challenge #00360: Shining, Gleaming, Silken, Flaxen, Waxen...
 * Challenge #00361: Everything Proof Shield
 * Challenge #00362: Stupid Mammals.
 * Challenge #00363: Fun With (Decidedly Non-Standard) Units
 * Challenge #00364: [Citation Needed]
 * Challenge #00365: Stolen From a Webcomic