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Showing posts with label 2026 Prompt #9. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2026 Prompt #9. Show all posts
Saturday, 20 June 2026

'Clearance' by Christine Reeves

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This story begins with a once idyllic slow-moving river patrolled by dragonflies in high summer. Sections of its steep earth sides ideal for...
Friday, 19 June 2026

'Growth' by Allison Renner

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Bought plants at Marton’s Nursery, brought them home. Digging grass took hours, then tilling soil: clean slate. Body sore, meaning time for ...

'Musings for Carvings' by Birgit K. Gaiser

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Zitko Iliev. Rada engraved each letter carefully into the ring of blue marble. Eventually, all stones would line up, forming two faces, feat...

'Possible Futures' by A.M. Udy

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Rounded bends push rambunctious youths faster towards fate’s unknown. They still carried with them some childish wonder, had desperate need ...

'What Are You Thinking?' By Melissa Flores Anderson

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Mick brings the d-word into conversation first. Divorce, a sharp sound that hangs between them every time they talk now. But Lilly packs bag...
Thursday, 18 June 2026

'Maisie Loved Her Doorbell Camera' by Debra A Daniel

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She bought it when burglars were sweeping the subdivision, stealing electronics, tearing big screen televisions right off walls, rummaging t...

'Summer War' by Emma Bolton

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I whisper desperate words of encouragement: “Hang in there, darling Rose. Mummy loves her girl.” My fingers smooth creased leaves; cool swol...
Wednesday, 17 June 2026

'Orphan Seeds' by Rosaleen Lynch

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It’s history class, with postcards already laid out, of old-world flowers, waters, skies. Holding up a seed, I explain it grew like them. Ge...

'Political Coop' by Anna Peter

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Lizzy found her hen Heen comatose at noon yesterday. Or was she acting. Sprinkled water sorted matters fast. Drama queen! Diva! It all prove...
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Tuesday, 16 June 2026

'Seeing Red' by Rachel Burrows

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I remember whiteness – parents’ faces and echoing ward walls. The smell of disinfectant so different to school where it somehow carried pain...

'Predators' by Maria Sanger

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Slippery was that rope bridge suspended over the rainforest canopy. Sign said “Danger! Keep out! Wild animals. Don’t go across.” There were ...

'At Last' by Pam Makin

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Although nobody accepted the fact, Nancy is single by choice. She chooses her life, along with everything about it, deliberately. No man, or...
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'Bull-headed Descent' by Emily Macdonald

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Mother wisely warned against listening at doors. “You’ll deserve what you think you’ve heard,” she’d say. Now there’s me, pinning hot ear up...

'Happy Hour' by Emily Hall

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Vodka tonic dribbles from the corner of Mom’s mouth. Discarded limes, all squeezed out, rest beside unused dinner forks. “Never wanted to be...
Monday, 15 June 2026

'Snow in June' by Julia Goodlet

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Stories. I always loved those our Nan told us - sometimes believable. Others not so, her imagination vivid. There was one, which still cling...

'Once Upon a Pandemic' by Sravanthi Challapalli

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COVID came, jobs went. Migrants decided they would go back. On foot, you see, little money or transport was available. World-weary legs, fam...
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'The God of Unwanted Children' by Kathryn Reese

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The god of unwanted children herself grew up wild, breasts bursting out from a t-shirt, face slapped for defiance or an insistence on climbi...
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'Rewind' by RR Menon

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Imagine coughing up a painting. Postcard perfect. Grass blades, green with envy around tall trees swaying to the crooning wind. Butterfly me...
Saturday, 13 June 2026

NFFD 2026 Prompt #9: Single Crossing

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  Prompt #9: Single Crossing Welcome to The Write-In!  This year, we're celebrating the 2026 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology them...