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Prompts for 27 June 2025
Write about a bad time for fireworks
gilded with consequence
“don’t speak”
A character with an addiction
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 - Song of New Orleans
Jeannine - The City of Lost Dreams
James Mayes - The Perfect Meal
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Thank you for the highlight. This week's prompts sound like fun!
Fireworks
Simon flipped the light switch off. Immediately he caught a full display of fireworks in places where they should not have been. He flipped the light on and they disappeared. He turned the light off. There they were again, a blistering side show of light sparkling all over his eye ball.
“This can’t be good,” he thought.
Simon consulted with his optometrist who concurred and immediately sent him to see an ophthalmologist. Before he could say “Bob’s your Uncle,” Simon found himself lying back in a surgeon's chair where the fireworks in his eye, while mind numbing, saved his eyesight.