NFFD 2021: Prompt #21

Screen Fatigue

Until 2020, National Flash Fiction Day held live events with workshops, flash walks, and of course the annual anthology launches.  For obvious reasons, we've been online-only these past two years.  Overall, we've been delighted with the result; people from all over the world can celebrate with us.  However, there are some things that just don't translate to the screen....

Your challenge for this prompt is to write a flash that would lose something if it were 'just' displayed as text on a screen.  Maybe handwriting plays a role in character development.  Maybe the flash requires big, long, unbroken lines of text that couldn't easily be displayed on a screen.  Maybe it's a scratch-and-sniff flash.  Maybe your flash has tabs that need to be pulled, or flaps that need to be lifted, picture-book style.

*

If you’re submitting this to us, make sure to note that this is a response to Prompt 21: Screen Fatigue.  Hopefully, your flash won't translate directly to our blog, but we welcome photographs, textual notes, audio, video, interpretive dance, etc.

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