Prompt #16: Bridge Closed
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 story in the form of signs, warnings, notices, announcements, or instructions. The reader should be able to work out what happened from what is being forbidden, redirected, repaired, or apologised for.
Aim to make the 'what happened' something unusual and specific.
Bonus points if you can insert some levity and/or humour.
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If you’re submitting
this to us, make sure to note that this is a response to Prompt 16: Bridge Closed.
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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Photograph of Chambers Bridge (Woolwich Township, Ontario) by C Hensley via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).
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