NFFD 2026 Prompt #14: The Long Haul

 

Prompt #14: The Long Haul

Welcome to The Write-In!  This year, we're celebrating the 2026 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology theme of Bridges. 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 that spans a significant length of time — at least a century — in no more than 250 words.

You choose how to move through time. Jump cuts, fragments, a single image per decade, a list...whatever works for the story.

To make this prompt extra challenging, we ask you to avoid: a single person's life cycle and any ending that involves a death, funeral, or cognitive decline.  

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If you’re submitting this to us, make sure to note that this is a response to Prompt 14: The Long Haul.

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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