FFF - Everyone's A Critic

1 August 2025

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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!

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

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Enjoy!

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Prompts for 1 August 2025

• Write about a paint gallery

• steaming cold

• “you’re wrong”

• A character who is a culture critic

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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. I’m loving all the stories coming out of this so here’s this week’s Flash Fictioneers! First timers are marked with a ✨

Gerard DiLeo

- Scamway

Jeannine Lawall

- Meeting the Family

Michael S. Atkinson

- A Matter of Deliberation
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Stephanie Loomis

- The Cost of Coffee, Part 20 ← This is the end of Stephanie’s 20 part micro-serial, congratulations Stephanie, thank you for sharing your serial with Flash Fiction Friday!

Scott MacLeod

- Those Who Can’t Do, Teach

Bill Ferguson 🇨🇦

- Effortlessly Strenuous

Thank you all for sharing your wonderful fiction!

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

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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!