NFFD 2022 Prompt #15: Pairings

 

Pairings

This is National Flash Fiction Day's eleventh anniversary, so this year, all our prompts have something to do with the number 11....

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To mark our ten year anniversary last year, NFFD hosted our first ever novella-in-flash competition.  To celebrate our eleventh anniversary, we're launching the winning novella, Sybilla, by Joanna Campbell.

While writing an entire novella-in-flash is a bit ambitious for a project with a 24-hour turn-around, we can at least get you started....

For this prompt, write not one but two separate flashes of up to 150 words each (shorter is more than fine). Both flashes should be completely separate, stand-alone pieces, but there should be an element that connects them.  Maybe the main character in the first appears in the second.  Maybe they take places in exactly the same location, 11 years apart.  Maybe they each involves the same selection of strange, unusual words....

If you haven't already bought a copy, you can find Sybilla in the National Flash Fiction Day Bookshop.

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If you’re submitting this to us, make sure to note that this is a response to Prompt 15: Pairings.

You can submit responses until 23:59 BST on Sunday, 19 June 2022 for a chance to be published here at The Write-In.