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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 22 August 2025
Write about a riverboat
delicious abstraction
“it’s broken”
A character who is a teenager
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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 ✨
Stephanie Loomis - Chance of Storms
Michael S. Atkinson - The Loss
Scott MacLeod - Flour Power
Bill Ferguson 🇨🇦 - A Refreshing Moment
Jeannine Lawall - The One Who Touches Without Bruising
Gerard DiLeo - Lazarus
Claire Chambers - The Museum Man Knows Magic
Leanne Shawler - There’s No Regret
Thank you all for sharing your wonderful fiction!
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Thank you and God bless!
Another wonderful batch! Thank you for including mine.