2025 Prompt Index
New and Improved!
Welcome!
This is the index of Flash Fiction Friday prompts for 2025! This year, I have formalized Flash Fiction Friday, and will be posting both prompts AND highlights for people who participated in the prompts. This index will be a collection of the prompts themselves but will include links to the post for each week showcasing all the participants!
How To Use The Prompts
The first rule is that THERE ARE NO RULES! Because this is FLASH FICTION FRIDAY, I suggest that you try to write flash fiction—500 to 1,000 words, one sitting if you can manage it. But it can be micro-fiction (500 words or less); it can be Macro Fiction (award winning 500 page novels); it can be anything in-between.
Every week I will publish a list of prompts that will follow this format:
Write about [something]
[an evocative and self-contradictory turn of phrase]
“This is a line of dialogue”
The type of character who you should put in your story
These are designed to kick-start your creativity and are not designed to constrain it. Use one, use them all, mix-and-match from different days, or don’t use them at all. If the prompts help you write, they have succeeded.
Be sure to tag me in the post where you use the prompts, and I’ll host chat-threads for Flash Fiction Friday where you can share your stories with the community too!
Above all else, ENJOY WRITING, Fictioneers!
The Index
31 January 2025 - Flash Fiction Friday Returns
Write about moving to a new place
it stung sweetly
“So you have made your choice?”
The type of character who doesn’t feel safe
07 February 2025 - Echo
Write about learning to use a new tool
like leaden echoes
“It’s all I had”
The type of character who likes causing trouble
14 February 2025 - Fire
Write about a campfire story
chaotic annotations
“where did you find it?”
The type of character who wants to remain hidden
21 February 2025 - Snow
Write about a blizzard
weighs down lightly
“That’s not what I asked.”
The type of character who is good at tricking people.
28 February 2025 - Pinpricks
Write about a long day
light fell like pinpricks
“you don’t understand”
The type of character who is lying about something
7 March 2025 - In The Dark
Write about a favorite food
delightful darkness
“Explain it to me again”
A character who isn’t human”
14 March 2025 - Gone Home
Write about returning home
uncanny familiarity
“What else is left?”
A character who can’t remember
21 March 2025 - Cold Stars
Write about stargazing
cold distance
“Today, of all days”
A character who has given up
28 March 2025 - Victorious
Write about a triumph
divine thunder
“pick something else”
A character with a scar
4 April 2025 - Off and Away
Write about a good day
cavernous closeness
“Don’t worry about it”
A character who is a stowaway
11 April 2025 - Sun-Ripe
Write about a new leader
sun-ripened ruins
“my story is over”
A character who is under arrest
18 April 2025 - Blood and Water
Write about a celebration
rivers like veins
“I forgot”
A character with connections
25 April 2025 - Celebritas
Write about achieving a milestone
devastating drums
“Don’t say a word”
A character who is a celebrity
9 May 2025 - MerMay
Write about the sea
inviting shallows
“I don’t think so”
A character who is a merfolk
16 May 2025 - All Wise Men Fear
Write about a ship in storm
churning stillness
“Please, no”
A character who doesn’t believe in mermaids
23 May 2025 - Mute
Write about a sailor without a ship
the eye of the moon
“You don’t know the half of it”
A character who can’t speak
30 May 2025 - Feeling Sunny
Write about a sunny day
dismal celebrations
“Just a matter of perspective”
A character with a twin
6 June 2025 - Shut-Eye
Write about sleeping in a car
mysterious certainty
“don’t do that thing”
A character who is voluntold
Thank you for visiting Flash Fiction Friday!
Looking forward to this. Hope you have a wonderful holiday.