Prompt #18: Busy
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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Look at Joanna Campbell's painting, 'Busy'. This piece is filled with warm, chaotic energy, stark angles, and scattered silhouettes all moving in different directions.
Write a flash fiction piece where at least three different characters cross paths in a bustling environment, but their internal goals are completely different.
To make this extra challenging, we ask you to avoid crime, accidents, or tragedy.
Bonus points if you can write a story where the intersecting chaos results in something serendipitous, humorous, or surprisingly joyful.
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If you’re submitting
this to us, make sure to note that this is a response to Prompt 18: Busy
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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Artwork by Joanna Campbell.
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