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It’s Flash Fiction Friday! The game is simple: check out the prompts below, write literally anything based on any, all, or none of the prompts, post a story to your stack before next week, and share your story in the chat thread!
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Prompts for 4 July 2025
Write about a holiday
patriotic apparition
“whom it may concern”
A character who collects artifacts
Flash Fiction Highlights
Every week I will choose some (or all!) of the stories shared in the Chat to highlight in the subsequent weeks issue of Flash Fiction Friday. I’m loving all the stories coming out of this so here’s this week’s Flash Fictioneers! First timers are marked with a ✨
Michael S. Atkinson - Burglary, Interrupted
Joseph Young - July Fore
Scott MacLeod - Damp Squibs
Gerard DiLeo - Lighting the Fuse
Jeannine - Trouble with Grandpa
Thank you all for sharing your wonderful fiction!
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Thank you and God bless!
Thx as always
Thank you for the highlight and the prompts! I've been thinking on this one, and I think I have a story percolating in the little grey cells...