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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 3 October 2025
Write about a sandwich
tumultuous turning of time
“it’s not like you to be late”
A character who has a secret talent
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 - Posted
✨ Sean - Wish you were here ← Sean is my IRL friend and he doesn’t want anyone to follow him or pay attention to his writing so you know what to do
Gerard DiLeo - Splits In The Faith
Jeannine Lawall - Tiny Portals
Bill Ferguson 🇨🇦 - Pinned
Scott MacLeod - 11:59
Thank you all for sharing your wonderful fiction!
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Thank you and God bless!
Thx !!
This feels like bullying =P