Category: Flash Fiction
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Flash Fiction Prompt – Red (30 words max)
The Wrong Color (30 words) – written 4/11/2016 Charts said that the star here was white – just the color needed for his experiments. But the blood colored one? It wouldn’t do. Someone else had stained it before him.
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Flash Fiction Prompt – Rabbit (150 words max)
Side Job (149 words) – written 3/31/2016 “We’re going to what?” Collin furrowed his brow. “Rabbit.” “Rabbit?” Considering what a rabbit was, and their typical mating habits, Collin was suddenly concerned over the words use as a verb. “Can you…elaborate?” “Yeh…we gon’ rabbit.” The squat figure stood on its toes…
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Flash Fiction Prompt – Longing (50 words max)
Answer (48 words) – written 3/22/2016 There was nothing more to say. She had balked at the answer before, but not today. Her blunt “no” stung, but the feeling of not knowing had been far worse. If anything, he was glad. That she wasn’t human didn’t matter much to him…
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Flash Fiction Prompt – Fracture (250 words max)
The Speed of Light (250 words) – written 3/15/16 The first ship to reach the speed of light was supposed to be a testament to man’s ingenuity. Instead, the ship created a crack in the sky, as if going so fast had slammed it against an invisible barrier that none…
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Flash Fiction Prompt – Borders (150 words max)
Outside (144 words) – written 3/11/16 There was nothing past the bubble. Even if you pressed your nose against it, the glare was too strong to see more than a few inches and, even then, there was only darkness beyond. It had always been this way in Ellion. Nothing ever…
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Flash Fiction Prompt – Glass Half Empty (200 words max)
Ghost (199 words) – written 3/4/16 The felt brim of a hat was pushed up with a single finger, the rest gripping a mostly empty glass of gin. The face beneath the brim was old, deep wrinkles forming a lattice of time that spoke to the years this individual had seen.…
