Flash Fiction Friday

It's Flash Fiction Friday! This week, write your short fiction from the point of view (POV) of an inanimate object! Maybe it's a shoe...maybe it's a lamp...just tell a story from its perspective!

[Image: Salt shaker]

Length: 2000 words
Deadline: Sunday, August 1, 2021, 2am Central Standard Time

Leave your entry in the comments, please. As always, the winner will get a badge and bragging rights!

Flash Fiction Friday

 It's Flash Fiction Friday! For this week's contest, go to HuffPost's Weird News page and write a short piece based on a headline! 

Length: 2000 words
Deadline: Sunday, June 20, 2021, 2am Central Standard Time

Leave your entry in the comments, please. As always, the winner will get a badge and bragging rights!

Flash Fiction Friday

 It's Flash Fiction Friday! It's starting to get hot out there - where I live, at least - so the prompt for this weekend is SWELTERING.

[Image: A bulldog laying in a pile of ice cubes]

Length: 2000 words
Deadline: Sunday, May 23, 2021, 2am Central Standard Time

Leave your entry in the comments, please. As always, the winner will get a badge and bragging rights!

Flash Fiction Friday 57 #FlashFiction

 It's Flash Fiction Friday! I'm moving to a new house this weekend, so our prompt is A New Start.

[Image: Text "RESIST" with raised fists]

Length: 2000 words
Deadline: Sunday, February 21, 2021, 2am Central Standard Time

Leave your entry in the comments, please. As always, the winner will get a badge and bragging rights!

Flash Fiction Friday 56 #FlashFiction

It's Flash Fiction Friday! This week we have a longer prompt: 

You can feel her staring at you when you close your eyes, but when you open them, she's gone. 

[Image: Text "RESIST" with raised fists]

Length: 2000 words
Deadline: Sunday, February 7, 2021, 2am Central Standard Time

Leave your entry in the comments, please. As always, the winner will get a badge and bragging rights!

Flash Fiction Friday Contest 52 #flashfiction

 It's Flash Fiction Friday! And it's almost November, which means it's almost time for NaNoWriMo! I don't know about you, but that makes me feel frantic.

Image from Alex Wise

Prompt: Frantic
Length: 1000 words
Deadline: Sunday, November 1, 2020, 2am Central Standard Time

Leave your entry in the comments, please. As always, the winner will get a badge and bragging rights!

Flash Fiction Friday Contest 51 #flashfiction

It's Flash Fiction Friday! 

Today is also National Day of Service and Remembrance. To commemorate this day, please write a piece of flash fiction with the theme Remembrance. It can be as long or short as you want. 

Prompt: Remembrance
Length: As long as you want
Deadline: Sunday, September 13, 2020, 2am Central Standard Time

Leave your entry in the comments, please. As always, the winner will get a badge and bragging rights!

Flash Fiction Friday Contest 50 #flashfiction

It's our 50th Flash Fiction Friday! 

[GIF: Pokemon cheering]

In honor of this historic event, the word count limit for this Flash Fiction piece is only going to be 50 words! Write about a celebration, but be sure to keep it short!

Prompt: Celebration
Length: Up to 50 words
Deadline: Sunday, August 23, 2020, 2am Central Standard Time

Leave your entry in the comments, please. As always, the winner will get a badge and bragging rights!

Flash Fiction Friday Contest 49 #flashfiction

It's time for Flash Fiction Friday! Use this image as inspiration for your piece:

Image Source

Prompt: On the Porch
Length: Up to 1000 words
Deadline: Sunday, August 9, 2020, 2am Central Standard Time

Leave your entry in the comments, please. As always, the winner will get a badge and bragging rights!

Flash Fiction Friday Contest 48 #flashfiction

It's time for Flash Fiction Friday! Use this image as inspiration for your piece:

Prompt: Bumblebee
Length: Up to 2000 words
Deadline: Sunday, July 26, 2020, 2am Central Standard Time

Leave your entry in the comments, please. As always, the winner will get a badge and bragging rights!

Flash Fiction Friday Contest 47 #flashfiction

It's time for Flash Fiction Friday!

This week, we're doing something a little different, so let us know what you think (even if you don't enter)!

Prompt: Write a story where the setting is also a character
Length: Up to 2000 words
Deadline: Sunday, July 12, 2020, 2am Central Standard Time

For this Flash Fiction Friday, I challenge you to write a short story based on the prompt Write a story where the setting is also a character. Try to think outside the box! Maybe your characters got swallowed by a whale a la Finding Nemo. Maybe the main character has a delusion. Or maybe the house really is alive...

Leave your entry in the comments, please. As always, the winner will get a badge and bragging rights!

Flash Fiction Friday Contest 46 #flashfiction

Prompt: These Old Bones
Length: Under 500 words
Deadline: Sunday, May 31, 2020, 2am Central Standard Time

For this Flash Fiction Friday, I challenge you to write a short scene based on the prompt These Old Bones WITHOUT writing horror! It can be anything but something scary. Never fear, Halloween is only 155 days away...

Leave your entry in the comments, please. As always, the winner will get a badge and bragging rights!

O'Abby's Vacation Flash Fiction Competition

O'Abby is on vacation this week here:

To keep you busy while she's away mountain biking, hiking, swimming and sunning herself, she challenges you to write a piece of flash fiction (no more than 500 words), inspired by this stunning view.

Post them in the comments, and when she's back next week, she'll pick a winner to receive a prize.

Have a fantastic week!

X O'Abby

Flash Fiction Contest #44

Are you behind in NaNoWriMo? Here's an opportunity to catch up!

National Novel Writing Month is an incredible (and stressful) time in which us eccentric bibliophiles attempt to write 50,000 words in a single month. I, for one, am majorly behind in my own word count and wanted to offer some positive motivation for those who are struggling too, or just want to write more for the prospect of #winning.

This Flash Fiction Friday, your task is to write 500 words of your current NaNo novel. It's not exactly a flash fiction prompt, but competition always lights a fire under our butts, right? ;)

Prompt: NaNo Novel Chapter of Choice

Word Count: 500

Deadline: Sunday, December 1st 2019

Happy Writing! May the best insomniac win!

Flash Fiction Contest #43

Sometimes, things are not always as they seem...

This Flash Fiction Friday, we invite you to write a <200 word story about either:

A. Something written in a scary tone that turns out to be not so scary after all,

or...

B. Something truly frightening that disguises itself as part of the ordinary

Please submit your responses by Sunday, October 27th at 11:59 EST!

Winner will be announced before that Friday!

Good luck!

Flash Fiction Friday #42

This Flash Fiction Friday, we'll be doing things a little differently...

Just because the holidays are over doesn't mean you're safe. Whether you've been naughty or nice this year, you have something to fear. This Flash Fiction Friday's prompt is Krampus, and all of its demonic holiday terror. The word count for this one is a lot more broad, because who am I to stifle your creativity if you want to turn this into a terrifying one-off scene or an entire short story? The deadline is also at a later time too, in case of some of you being night owls who can only write horror during the witching hour.

Winner will be announced on January 1st at 12:00 am so that it'll be a nice New Year's surprise.

Happy Writing! It may be your last...

Flash Fiction Friday #41

If anyone is familiar with fanfiction, you may know what a sonfic is. It's a piece of writing inspired by a song or group of songs, and can include song lyrics in between paragraphs. For this Flash Fiction Friday, pick a song that inspires you and write a story about it! (Song lyrics will not count towards word count.) Please be sure to credit the song title and artist!

Winner will be announced on SUNDAY 9/30 after 12 pm! SUNDAY 10/7 after 12 pm! Happy writing!

Flash Fiction Friday #40

We're gonna switch it up this week. I recently had to evacuate because of Hurricane Florence, so, today's prompt is going to be The End of the World. What's some apocalypse imagery that you can come up with in 50 words or less? Leave your story in the comments down below!

Winner will be announced on Sunday, 9/23 after 12 pm! Happy writing!

Flash Fiction Friday #39

In honor of National Suicide Prevention Week, this Flash Fiction Friday prompt is MENTAL HEALTH. Whether we are reading about a character struggling with mental illness or recovering from it, please be sure to tag any trigger warnings as appropriate.

The winner will be announced on SUNDAY 9/16 at 12 pm! Happy writing!

Flash Fiction Friday #38

Labor Day was this past Monday. I hope everyone had a good time off. (Or not, as 1 in 4 Americans work on Labor Day...) Now that it's time to return to work, I'm sure everyone is dreading it and getting back into the swing of things. That's why this prompt is about JOBS.

Your piece could be about a nightmare teenage summer job, a career or you could take it in the opposite direction and write about a hit man's "job." What can you think of that has to do with jobs?

Submit your flash fiction piece in the comments below by SUNDAY 9/9 at NOON!

Winner will be announced on Sunday! Go crazy!