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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 17 October 2025
Write about a visitor
distant thrumming
“I’m not sorry”
A character who knows what others don’t
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 - Shattered
Jeannine Lawall - Are We There Yet?
S.M. Osborne - Chase
✨ E.B. Howard - The Long Walk
Honorable mention to Bridget for including last week’s prompts in her non fiction reflections!
Thank you all for sharing your wonderful fiction!
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Thank you and God bless!
I finally got some time to do this again =)
All done...placing the link and published it on LoF
These sound familiar....