FFF - MerMay
9 May 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!
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Prompts for 9 May 2025
Write about the sea
inviting shallows
“I don’t think so”
A character who is a merfolk
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. Because I flubbed things and missed last week due to travel, we do our first-week-of-the-month celebration this week! Here are the highlights:
- Good News, Bad News- Cost of Coffee Part 9 and Part 10
- The Once and Future Queen
- Don’t Say a Word (his inaugural Flash Fiction Friday!!)
- Doubting Dad
Honorable mention to
who uses the prompts but you gotta put ‘em in the chat so everyone else can find ‘em my dude!! Check out his story ConspiracyThank you all for sharing your wonderful fiction!
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Thank you for checking out these prompts! Come back next week for another round of prompts!
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Thank you and God bless!
ummmm.....Fitting those into Cost of Coffee may not be possible.....
Hmmm... I thought I'd commented on this hours ago, but Substack says not. At any rate, your prompts have yielded an excellent crop of stories, as usual. I have a story worked out for this week's prompts, but need to find time to write it down. Have a great week!