Prompt #4: Off Season
Welcome to The Write-In! This year, we're celebrating the 2025 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology theme of Seasons. Throughout National Flash Fiction Day, we'll be posting one prompt every six hours from 00:00 until midnight (BST), for a total of 5 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 Tuesday, 17 June 2025....
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For the fourth challenge of 2025, write a story in which at least one character has gone somewhere at an unusual time of year. A beach holiday in winter, a ski lodge in high summer, a holiday destination outside the tourist season...or a more unusual or bizarre scenario.
To make this prompt extra challenging, avoid the following themes: illness, memory loss, revisitings of a place with happy memories. Optional bonus points are available if you make us laugh or smile.
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If you’re submitting this to us, make sure to note that this is a response to Prompt 4: Off Season
You can submit responses until 23:59 BST on Sunday, 15 June 2025 for a chance to be published here at The Write-In.
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i really enjoy that you give exclusion criteria- it makes me have to think more creatively!
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