NFFD 2023 Prompt #15: Time is of the Essence

 

Time is of the Essence

Welcome to The Write-In!  This year, we're celebrating the 2023 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology theme of time.  Throughout National Flash Fiction Day, we'll be posting one time-related prompt on the hour every hour from now until midnight (BST), for a total of 25 prompts in all.  You have until midnight on Sunday (BST) to submit your responses for possible publication here at the Write-In.  We'll start posting responses on Sunday, 25 June 2023....

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In this prompt, it’s time to loosen up, let your hair down, and embrace the cliché!

Find a time-related idiom or phrase and use that as the title for your piece, and feel free to use every cliché, idiom, or well-worn phrase you can think of. Feel free to get silly.

It’s not required, but bonus points are available if you do so in the context of a genre piece.... Maybe it’s a whodunnit called ‘Killing Time’, a Western called ‘Spur of the Moment’, a courtroom drama called ‘Just in Time’, a space opera called ‘Once in a Blue Moon’, or a comedy called ‘A Laugh a Minute’. (Feel free to use these if you like, or come up with your own.)

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

You can submit responses until 23:59 BST on Sunday, 25 June 2023 for a chance to be published here at The Write-In.

You can claim the badge for this prompt until 23:59 BST on Sunday, 2 July 2023 by going to the here (hosted by the NFFD website). 

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