NFFD 2021: Prompt #14

 

Ripening

National Flash Fiction Day's seventh anthology, Ripening, was published in 2017. 

For this prompt, write a flash in which an irreversible process reverses.  Someone gets younger instead of older.  Clouds reclaim their raindrops.  Ripe fruit reverts to the seed.

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If you’re submitting this to us, make sure to note that this is a response to Prompt 14: Ripening.

You can submit responses until 23:59 BST on Sunday, 27 June 2021 for a chance to be published here at The Write-In.

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