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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 18 July 2025
Write about a summer storm
boxed skies
“that’s what you think”
A character who writes a blog
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 ✨
Stephanie Loomis - The Cost of Coffee, Part 18
Scott MacLeod - Borderline Genius
Jeannine Lawall - My Best Friend, the Sasquatch
Gerard DiLeo - Mercy Killing
✨ Brett A Dill - So Nearly After All
Thank you all for sharing your wonderful fiction!
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Thank you and God bless!
I'll be posting mine on July 22. I still have three more parts of my 7-part fantasy series (https://gmdileo.substack.com/p/the-dole-1-of-7).
Thx as always for doing this