Prompt #21: Future Mudlarking
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 from the point of view of someone in the future who has found an object from our present day. Let them misunderstand it beautifully.
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If you’re submitting
this to us, make sure to note that this is a response to Prompt 21: Future Mudlarking.
You can submit responses until 23:59 BST on Sunday,
14 June 2026 for a chance to be published here at The Write-In.
You can claim the badge for this prompt by visiting our badges page.
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