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14 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 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 14 February 2025

• Write about a campfire story

• chaotic annotations

• “where did you find it?”

• The type of character who wants to remain hidden

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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. This week, I decided to choose three! Here are the highlights:

Bendragon

- Unexpected Uses

• This is Bendragon’s first post on substack! It’s a real honor that he decided to try his hand at Flash Fiction Friday for the occasion. Check out Bendragon’s story to see what kind of tool Grizzlock is trying to learn, and some creative uses he finds for it…

Stephanie Loomis

- One Knife To Rule Them All

• Stephanie is about the world’s biggest supporter of Flash Fiction Friday, and her stories are always a delight. Check out Stephanie’s story to see how effective a switchblade is at cutting through bread…

Jeannine

- The Seeds of Loving Kindness

• Jeannine not only wrote a great story with last weeks prompts, but I saw her checking out everyone’s stories and giving them a boost! Check out Jeannine’s story to see what it takes to plant a seed of kindness…

There were so many more stories than just these, make sure you check out the FFF Subscriber 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!