FFF - Echo

07 February 2025

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Flash Fiction Friday is back! This time a little better structured than when I ran it on notes last summer! The game is simple: check out the prompts below, write literally anything¹ 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!

Once you’ve posted your story, make sure to check out the other stories in the chat and share your favorites on notes!

Thank you for giving Flash Fiction Friday a warm welcome back, and don’t forget to subscribe to get FFF in your inbox every week!

Enjoy!

Photo by Namroud Gorguis on Unsplash

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Prompts for 07 February 2025

• Write about learning to use a new tool

• like leaden echoes

• “It’s all I had”

• The type of character who likes causing trouble

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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. To celebrate the inaugural FFF, here’s EVERYBODY who joined in the fun last week! Thank you everyone for sharing your fiction!

• 🕶️Mike Schuster🕶️
  - Mary is Quite Contrary

• Michael S. Atkinson
  - Med-bots and Melinda

• Kathryn Zurmehly
  - Stable Courting

• Stephanie Loomis
  - The Doors

• Maryellen Brady 💗📚
  - Maya’s New Apartment

• Sara Dietz
  - Brave Together

• Jeannine
  - The Sweet Sting of Eternity

• Invented In A Bike Shop
  - In The Distance

• Connor McGwire
  - For This Lost Planet, A King

• 💎 Jaime Buckley
  - Packing Up Trouble

• H. A. Titus
  - Cottonwood

• Matthew Christian
  - Chasing Time

Want to be featured? Make sure you share your stories in the Flash Fiction Friday chat!²

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Thank you for checking out these prompts! Come back next week for another round of prompts!

Interested in seeing my own writing? Check out The Volume for longer-form fiction, or The Writing Gym for writing exercises designed to help me sharpen my craft!

Thank you and God bless!

1. Seriously, write anything! A FAQ from last week—I suggest you write between 500 and 1,000 words, but no one will be turned away for writing less or more. You also do not have to use all the prompts together, you can pick out one, or even mix and match from different days. As long as you write—it counts with me!

2. Don’t forget to share your stories in the Gibberish subscriber chat, and please take a moment and read some of the other submissions!