Prompt #22: Lost and Found
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 in the form of a 'Lost and Found' poster or public advertisement for something intangible (like a lost afternoon, a missed opportunity, or a sudden realization) dropped near a river.
To make this extra challenging, avoid themes involving dementia or general memory loss. A loss of memory about something very specific and usual (words involving the letter 'r', the colour blue or the existence of insects, say) is fair game!
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If you’re submitting
this to us, make sure to note that this is a response to Prompt 22: Lost and Found.
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 by Hawai'i Digital Newspaper Program UH Mānoa via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).
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