Prompt #17: Flooding
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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Today, NFFD's sister project FlashFlood is publishing one story every five to ten minutes. Find a story you admire and choose five interesting words from it: strong nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc. (Articles, conjunctions, and common verbs don't count, so avoid things like 'an', 'the', 'with', 'and', 'is', 'said' and lean into things that are super specific or evocative.)
Write a flash of no more than 150 words using all five words on a subject that is different from the source story.
The title does not count toward the word count. Please note in your submission which FlashFlood story you drew from (and a link would be greatly appreciated), as well as your list of words. You may use a story from this year's Flood or previous years.
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If you’re submitting
this to us, make sure to note that this is a response to Prompt 17: Flooding.
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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