FFF - Gone Home
14 March 2025
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It’s Flash Fiction Friday! We’ve had one full month of prompts and one full month of incredible writing. 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 14 March 2025
Write about returning home
uncanny familiarity
“What else is left?”
A character who can’t remember
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:
- Night EyesThis is a curious story open to interpretation, a clever take on “delightful darkness” from last week!
- The Lake
SE Reid is no stranger to flash fiction, and she decided to try her hands at the prompts last week! We get a return to Ferris Island through the eyes of her local loremaster, and the pursuit of a fishing license!
The inimitable Jeannine has given us a creative twist on a…well I don’t want to spoil it for you. Let’s just say she took some creative license with the prompts, especially “A character who isn’t human”!
Want to be featured? Make sure you share your stories in the Flash Fiction Friday chat!
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Thank you and God bless!
Thank you for including Night Eyes in this weeks FFF.
..."curious story open to interpretation." What an apt description!
Well Höbin couldn't wait to get this done for you, Scoot.
Here you go:
https://www.lifeoffiction.com/p/a-familiar-stranger