NFFD 2026 Prompt #4: A Bridge to Nowhere?

 

 Prompt #4: A Bridge to Nowhere?

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 directions from one place to another. The destination may be real, emotional, impossible, long-lost, underwater, fictional, or not a place at all.  

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If you’re submitting this to us, make sure to note that this is a response to Prompt 4: A Bridge to Nowhere?

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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