NFFD 2027 Prompt #5: Erosion

 

 Prompt #5: Erosion

Welcome to The Write-In!  This year, we're celebrating the 2026 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology Mudlarking, its theme of Bridges, and the work of NFFD's new artist-in-residence Joanna Campbell. Throughout National Flash Fiction Day, we'll be posting one prompt every hours from 00:00 until midnight (BST), for a total of 25 prompts in all.  You have until 23:59 BST on Sunday to submit your responses for possible publication here at the Write-In over the course of the next week.

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Write a flash in which each sentence is at least one word shorter than the sentence before it.  

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If you’re submitting this to us, make sure to note that this is a response to Prompt #5: Erosion.

You can submit responses until 23:59 BST on Sunday, 14 June 2026 for a chance to be published here at The Write-In.

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