I teach a course in Flash Fiction, and have come to appreciate the kind of skill required for brevity of…
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Matthew Sharpe I recently spent about two years writing a lot of very short stories. I started by…
“For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” This sentence, often attributed to Ernest Hemingway (although the link to him is said…
Freeing your Strangers We have trapped strangers in the backgrounds of our photographs. Perhaps we are the elderly couple taking…
“A prompt I was given once that spawned one of the most intense stories I’ve ever written is one where…
Jennifer Jean Choose a card from the Tarot deck and write a story inspired by the card–feel free to look…
“Mash Stories www.mashstories.com, has a good system, where they take three words, and then require the participants of each contest…
Many writers are visually inspired. An evocative photo can be a great starting…
Victoria Redel- Writing Prompt 2 Collect overheard bits of conversation/dialogue during the course of the day. Choose three unrelated bits…
Susan Tepper Prompt: Smoke billows thick and black from the chimney of the deserted house. Susan Tepper has been a writer for…