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FFM Links - 31 July 2022 by Flash-Fic-Month, literature

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FFM Links - 31 July 2022

Welcome to Flash Fiction Month, day 31. The last day of FFM is finally here! You can all rejoice - after you finish today's story, that is. Don't forget to submit your Weeks 3 & 4 challenge pieces for judging, and submit your favorite story of the month for posterity! Instructions Flash Fiction Month is about writing – and posting – a story between 55-1000 words in length every day during July. Each day we'll upload a deviation where you can post your story for the day, with optional prompts, and the occasional optional challenge. Paste a link to your flash fiction piece for July 31 in the comments below. If you write a story every day this month, and complete every challenge you could win a prize! When you upload your newly minted literature deviations remember to use these official FFM tags: #flashfictionmonth , #ffm2022 Reminders Comments are the best motivation. Help boost the FFM community spirit, and take the time to read and comment on fellow FFMers work whenever you can.

FFM Links - 30 July 2022 by Flash-Fic-Month, literature

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FFM Links - 30 July 2022

Welcome to Flash Fiction Month, Day 30! It's nearly the end of the month. We hope you are all proud of how far you have come! The songs have been sung, the monsters slayed, the fights resolved (maybe). It's time for our final CHALLENGE. Instructions Flash Fiction Month is about writing – and posting – a story between 55-1000 words in length every day during July. Each day we'll upload a deviation where you can post your story for the day, with optional prompts, and the occasional optional challenge. Paste a link to your flash fiction piece for July 30 in the comments below. If you write a story every day this month, and complete every challenge you could win a prize! When you upload your newly minted literature deviations remember to use these official FFM tags: #flashfictionmonth , #ffm2022 CHALLENGE: Penultimate ELEMENT ONE: The sky’s the limit We’re talking about the upper limit of our FFM wordcount. Today’s story must be exactly 999 words. ELEMENT TWO: Taking a look back Your

FFM Links - 29 July 2022 by Flash-Fic-Month, literature

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FFM Links - 29 July 2022

Welcome to Flash Fiction Month, day 29. The end is nearly upon us. But don't you worry, we still have plenty left in store for your sufferi- I mean, fun and enjoyment! Instructions Flash Fiction Month is about writing – and posting – a story between 55-1000 words in length every day during July. Each day we'll upload a deviation where you can post your story for the day, with optional prompts, and the occasional optional challenge. Paste a link to your flash fiction piece for July 29 in the comments below. If you write a story every day this month, and complete every challenge you could win a prize! When you upload your newly minted literature deviations remember to use these official FFM tags: #flashfictionmonth , #ffm2022 Reminders Comments are the best motivation. Help boost the FFM community spirit, and take the time to read and comment on fellow FFMers work whenever you can. Inspire the masses! Donate prompts, music, and images to the 2022 Prompt Bank and help keep the writing

FFM Links - 28 July 2022 by Flash-Fic-Month, literature

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FFM Links - 28 July 2022

Welcome to Flash Fiction Month, Day 28! What is that we hear? Typical human posturing, cheap insults, cheering from oblivious bystanders. Uh-oh, sounds like a fight is about to start. Let’s go check it out, shall we? Instructions Flash Fiction Month is about writing – and posting – a story between 55-1000 words in length every day during July. Each day we'll upload a deviation where you can post your story for the day, with optional prompts, and the occasional optional challenge. Paste a link to your flash fiction piece for July 28 in the comments below. If you write a story every day this month, and complete every challenge you could win a prize! When you upload your newly minted literature deviations remember to use these official FFM tags: #flashfictionmonth , #ffm2022 Fight of your Life ELEMENT ONE: The battle Your main character(s) must be fighting for or against something. Physical battling is not required. ELEMENT TWO: The knock out punch The last line of your fic must

FFM Links - 27 July 2022 by Flash-Fic-Month, literature

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FFM Links - 27 July 2022

Welcome to Flash Fiction Month, day 27. The end of the last week is looming in the horizon. Are you worried about the fun ending? We sure are! :nuu: Instructions Flash Fiction Month is about writing – and posting – a story between 55-1000 words in length every day during July. Each day we'll upload a deviation where you can post your story for the day, with optional prompts, and the occasional optional challenge. Paste a link to your flash fiction piece for July 27 in the comments below. If you write a story every day this month, and complete every challenge you could win a prize! When you upload your newly minted literature deviations remember to use these official FFM tags: #flashfictionmonth , #ffm2022 Reminders Comments are the best motivation. Help boost the FFM community spirit, and take the time to read and comment on fellow FFMers work whenever you can. Inspire the masses! Donate prompts, music, and images to the 2022 Prompt Bank and help keep the writing doldrums at

FFM Links - 26 July 2022 by Flash-Fic-Month, literature

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FFM Links - 26 July 2022

Welcome to Flash Fiction Month, day 26. Do you hear music? We do. Is it Lady Stardust that breaks the silence of the void? Perhaps. Come and join us in this day of music - the David Bowie Day! Instructions Flash Fiction Month is about writing – and posting – a story between 55-1000 words in length every day during July. Each day we'll upload a deviation where you can post your story for the day, with optional prompts, and the occasional optional challenge. Paste a link to your flash fiction piece for July 26 in the comments below. If you write a story every day this month, and complete every challenge, you will enter the history books as a writer of singular purpose, unbowed and unshaken by the perils of flash fiction month. You could also win a prize! When you upload your newly minted literature deviations remember to use these official FFM tags: #flashfictionmonth , #ffm2022 David Bowie Day: Fan At Heart The repeat offenders among you have no doubt been waiting for this day to

FFM Links - 25 July 2022 by Flash-Fic-Month, literature

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FFM Links - 25 July 2022

Welcome to Flash Fiction Month, day 25. Another day, another story, another offering to the gods of literary excellency. Instructions Flash Fiction Month is about writing – and posting – a story between 55-1000 words in length every day during July. Each day we'll upload a deviation where you can post your story for the day, with optional prompts, and the occasional optional challenge. Paste a link to your flash fiction piece for July 25 in the comments below. If you write a story every day this month, and complete every challenge you could win a prize! When you upload your newly minted literature deviations remember to use these official FFM tags: #flashfictionmonth , #ffm2022 Reminders Comments are the best motivation. Help boost the FFM community spirit, and take the time to read and comment on fellow FFMers work whenever you can. Inspire the masses! Donate prompts, music, and images to the 2022 Prompt Bank and help keep the writing doldrums at bay. Have questions? Need someone to

FFM Links - 24 July 2022 by Flash-Fic-Month, literature

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FFM Links - 24 July 2022

Welcome to Flash Fiction Month, day 24. Since you are here, we assume that you have either survived the collaboration challenge, are working on taking it out or deftly dodged it altogether. Each option is more than fine and we applaud you for your continuing survival. Instructions Flash Fiction Month is about writing – and posting – a story between 55-1000 words in length every day during July. Each day we'll upload a deviation where you can post your story for the day, with optional prompts, and the occasional optional challenge. Paste a link to your flash fiction piece for July 24 in the comments below. If you write a story every day this month, and complete every challenge you could win a prize! When you upload your newly minted literature deviations remember to use these official FFM tags: #flashfictionmonth , #ffm2022 Reminders Comments are the best motivation. Help boost the FFM community spirit, and take the time to read and comment on fellow FFMers work whenever you

FFM Links - 23 July 2022 by Flash-Fic-Month, literature

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FFM Links - 23 July 2022

Welcome to Flash Fiction Month, Day 23! Another week of literary torture draws towards an end, and you know what that means! We hope you’ve had time to make some friends over the course of the month, because this time around it’s too dangerous to go alone. Everyone huddle together and get ready for yet another CHALLENGE. Instructions Flash Fiction Month is about writing – and posting – a story between 55-1000 words in length every day during July. Each day we'll upload a deviation where you can post your story for the day, with optional prompts, and the occasional optional challenge. Paste a link to your flash fiction piece for July 23 in the comments below. If you write a story every day this month, and complete every challenge you could win a prize! When you upload your newly minted literature deviations remember to use these official FFM tags: #flashfictionmonth , #ffm2022 The Paths Converge ELEMENT ONE: Time for a Team Up! Yes, we know that writers are generally

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FFM Links - 31 July 2022 by Flash-Fic-Month, literature

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FFM Links - 27 July 2022 by Flash-Fic-Month, literature

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FFM Links - 24 July 2022 by Flash-Fic-Month, literature

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FFM Prompt Bank 2022 by Flash-Fic-Month, literature

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FFM Prompt Bank 2022

The Flash Fiction Month party approaches and it looks like someone ate all our tasty prompty snacks. Be a dear and refill the bowl… or else we’ll have to snack on something, or someone, else. Leave your delicious literary morsels in the bowl (bank) below so that hungry writers may feast upon them when needed. ______________________________________ Leave your prompts for FFM 2022 below! Writing prompts, music prompts, image prompts (dA links only, please), undead messages from the beyond, and anything else you can think of. As always, throughout July we shall sift through the spectral chatter in order to divine the true inspirational messages from beyond, and the chosen few will be featured and credited in our daily uploads. ______________________________________ Are you providing a musical, or visual prompt for our consumption? Please let us know the title and artist for the prompt you're linking to by creating a descriptive text link (or even just writing it beside the

Golden Mug Awards Categories 2021 by Flash-Fic-Month, literature

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Golden Mug Awards Categories 2021

Flash Fiction Month is just around the corner, and that means it's time to announce this year's GOLDEN MUG AWARD CATEGORIES. This is where you come in. Yes, YOU, because FFM is nothing without our community, and we are relying on your suggestions to get things rolling. How does it work? Below you will find the various GMA categories for nomination. Nominations are only going to be needed at the end of July, so for the rest of FFM we want you to keep these categories in mind. If you read an FFM story that seems like a good fit for a particular category make note of it for later. We will be accepting nominations for all categories throughout the month of July. But you are also welcome to hoard your suggestions in secret like a word-hungry dragon, and give us all your top picks for each category at the end of FFM. NEW DEADLINE IS SUNDAY, AUGUST 8th - TELL YOUR FRIENDS. We've also made some small adjustments and added a couple of categories so be sure to skim over the available

FFM Prompt Bank 2021 by Flash-Fic-Month, literature

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FFM Prompt Bank 2021

Flash Fiction Month approaches, but still the future is shrouded in darkness. Are you brave enough to see what awaits? Will you convene with the spirits to uncover your true fate? Step into the soothsayers tent, and confer with Msr Hydra across the Spirit Board. Listen to the ghostly whispers, take their terrible secrets to heart - and then transcribe it all below so that the poor beleaguered Flash Fiction Month writers have some unearthly inspiration to call upon when they have need. ______________________________________ Leave your prompts for FFM 2021 below! Writing prompts, music prompts, image prompts (dA links only, please), undead messages from the beyond, and anything else you can think of. As always, throughout July we shall sift through the spectral chatter in order to divine the true inspirational messages from beyond, and the chosen few will be featured and credited in our daily uploads. ______________________________________ Are you providing a musical, or

Official FFM Prompt Bank 2020 by Flash-Fic-Month, literature

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Official FFM Prompt Bank 2020

It's nearly summertime and you know what that means: almost time for FFM shenanigans! But before we get to that, Hydra needs its annual sacrifice of prompts to flourish. Please submit any writing prompts, image prompts (deviations only), music prompts, and anything else that might catch your fancy below. After all, inspiration is one of the things that keeps Flash Fiction Month an exciting experience year after year. Thanks in advance for your nuggets of inspiration, and we look forward to seeing all your bright and shining faces come July!

Official FFM Prompt Bank 2018 by Flash-Fic-Month, literature

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Official FFM Prompt Bank 2018

When you were little your mother used to warn you about going off on adventures. Alas, if only you had listened to her sage advice. You probably wouldn't have ended up here, stranded in the midst of a Flash Fiction wilderness. It's been days since you left the edges of civilised reality. You're sweaty, tired, and covered in spider bites, and last night you were forced to share a cave with a desiccated corpse! Now night is falling, your machete's blunt, and you only have a few drops of inspiration left to see you through till morning. It's a jungle out there, all manner of beasts prowl the darkness, and to make matters worse there isn't a si

Suggestion Box by Flash-Fic-Month, literature

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Suggestion Box

Welcome to the Suggestion Box! Do you have a staggeringly brilliant flash fiction challenge idea? Or do you have a specific challenge element that you think we could use in the future? Then you're in the right place because Flash Prompts wants your input! Suggestion Guidelines: Your suggestion can be vague, or ultra specific. Just make sure it's for a challenge idea (e.g. Write a story without any adverbs), and not a general prompt (e.g. "It's dangerous to walk the halls of the nunnery at night."). Unless of course you're suggesting that the prompt be used as a starting/ending sentence or something similarly devious, in which case we'r

Official FFM Prompt Bank 2017 by Flash-Fic-Month, literature

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Official FFM Prompt Bank 2017

The beast of Flash Fiction Month rises up before you, and it is both great and terrible to behold. To be honest, you aren't sure how you got here. You were just a humble farmhand/trapeze artist/travelling salesman/intergalactic overlord trying to mind your own business when you were accosted by a madman on the roadside, and conned into signing your name to some sort unholy writ. You should have realised it was more than just a petition to save the local Library when he asked you to sign the thing in blood, but it's too late to back out now. You've been press-ganged into a bizarre monster-hunt/month long literary marathon, and if you don't go

Flash Prompts FAQ and Resources by Flash-Fic-Month, literature

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Flash Prompts FAQ and Resources

Flash Prompts: Frequently Asked Questions What is "Flash Prompts" about? Flash Prompts is a community writing event that revolves around the writing of flash fiction. Every two months on the 1st, we will post an optional flash fiction challenge, asking you to write a story containing various elements, and at the end of those two months we'll gather all those submissions together and feature them in one big journal. Flash Prompts will be posted on the following months: January, March, May, September, and November. The only time we won't post a Flash Prompt is during the month of July, when we host our annual writing event Flash Fiction M

Official FFM Prompt Bank 2016 by Flash-Fic-Month, literature

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Official FFM Prompt Bank 2016

You knew it was coming, but still you feel the slightest frisson of excitement now that the day is finally here. It's been a whole year since this place was last open to visitors, and as you wait in line at the ticket booth you watch as custodians pull dusty sheets from the cages, exposing their strange inhabitants to the light. It isn't so much a zoo as it is a menagerie, host to any number of unsettling creations, and after so many months in hibernation they have all become lean, and hungry. They need prompts, and you are the only ones who can slake their hunger! Be it mouthwatering dialogue, sumptuous turns of phrase, delectable musical

FFM 2016 SIGNUP by Flash-Fic-Month, literature

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FFM 2016 SIGNUP

FLASH FICTION MONTH IS HERE ONCE AGAIN! VIVA! #FlashFictionMonth (https://www.deviantart.com/flashfictionmonth) July is nearly upon us, and we ask each of you to offer up your name. 31 days. 31 pieces of indecently exposed short fiction. Are you ready? If the answer is yes, leave a comment below declaring your intent to partake in the glorious, delirious, sleep deprived mayhem otherwise know as FFM 2016! In your sign-up comment, please also note the following: What you hope to get out of FFM 2016, plus any handy suggestions you might have for the future. On a rising scale from 1-10, (1 being "Positively giddy", and 10 being "Effusive with joy") let us know just how excited

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Summer Habits of Dragons by LadyBrookeCelebwen, literature

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Summer Habits of Dragons

Day 1: Perhaps deciding to study a desert island inhabited by dragons with only a few others wasn’t the smartest decision ever, especially in the middle of summer, but I’m sure we will all survive. Day 2: Dragons do not like tsunamis. Day 5: Commander Smith’s new rule is that if a dragon comes rampaging into our camp, we are not allowed to propose cooking food to serve the dragon as a distraction, especially if the planned meal involves glazing one of the elves with orange sauce and serving him with summer squash. He also did not like the argument that I thought the whole reason we banned 100 year old humans but

FFM11: Hide The Key by NamelessShe, literature

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FFM11: Hide The Key

You are supposed to be alone. You are, but the footsteps come from upstairs. The wood groans. It creaks. You are afraid. The footsteps are too heavy to be Meredith's. You glimpse his face. You know. You run. You fumble with the wall tile, but there is nothing but empty space. The key should be there. Meredith keeps it here. Always. You don't see the blow that kills you. He always thought Gloria was pretty. It's a shame. The boss swore she wouldn't be here. She runs. She fumbles with a tile on the wall but finds nothing. Must be a panic room, he thinks. Why else would she be so desperate to get inside? But it doesn't matter. The money's

C Y D EE FF E C T (FFM 02) by OnLinedPaper, literature

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C Y D EE FF E C T (FFM 02)

There had actually been a lot about the cybernetics he wasn’t told. The nuances, if you will, the little things that took the most getting used to. Take his eye, for example. They’d told him he would be omnipotent, able to see the matrices within a computer projected as reality, able to see through walls as though they were windows, able to watch a man’s blood flow through the veins in his body. What they’d neglected to tell him was that he’d also be able to see through his own eyelid, and though it was only one eye they’d replaced, he still had trouble sleeping, trouble telling the dreams from reality. He&

Reboot - 13 July 2017 by TheBrokenBride, literature

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Reboot - 13 July 2017

Hicks wasn’t going to be able to hold out much longer. No matter how many blows he landed with the pipe, the robot kept coming. And coming. And coming. And Hicks' arms were getting tired. He tried to take a step back, but he was met with a bulkhead wall. The robot raised one of its appendages to bludgeon his head in, and Hicks closed his eyes, waiting for the blow to fall. It never did. The sound of the robot collapsing to the floor was enough to startle Hicks’ eyes open. He stared numbly at his foe, barely able to believe that it was over. But it had to be. Vazquez must have managed to figure out how to remotely shut the thin

FFM 2016 6: Birds Bring the Rain by ilyilaice, literature

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FFM 2016 6: Birds Bring the Rain

They ran through the rice field, crops crunching golden underneath their bare feet, Lucia bounding ahead like she always did. “Wait!” Mateo gasped. “Listen! I. Need. To. Show. You. Something!” He tried grasping her saya, but it slipped out of his fist like buttery silk. The sun on her shoulder, Lucia stood on the crest of the hill and looked down at him. By the time he reached her, her black eyes gleamed with starry glitter. “What is it you wish to show me? Is it a new game for us?” The stars twinkled. “So you see, at the current state of things, weather at the archipelago is not exactly optimal.

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The Word She Could Not Say by inkedacrylic, literature

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The Word She Could Not Say

Once, there lived a girl who dreamed of wings. Every night she soared up to the highest clouds and gave each one of them a hundred kisses. She danced alone on the wind, higher than the entire world, where she tried to catch every falling star. But these were only her dreams. The girl would still wake each morning – her face tickled by long strands of her hair – and she would pat her empty shoulder blades in utter disappointment. She began to grow weary of these dreams of hers only being dreams. On the hottest day of the summer, the girl walked into the shade of the forest near her home, where she came across a very tall tree. Sh

With a 4.0 You Should've Known Not to Drink Poison by FieryDownpour479, literature

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With a 4.0 You Should've Known Not to Drink Poison

A murder most foul, they say. It’s a shame really. You had so much to live for. You had a promising career ahead of you; you had a good internship, a 4.0 GPA, you probably would’ve graduated top of your class. It’s a shame you swallowed that arsenic. I guess I can’t blame you though. It wasn’t really your fault. How could you have known that someone laced your drink with poison? But with that 4.0 GPA one would think you’d be smart enough to notice. Apparently not. They talk about you a lot at the college. They say detectives have gone looking for you. Your parents are worried sick. No one really knows

Knock Three Times by dragoeniex, literature

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Knock Three Times

Most people, upon discovering a haunting or trespasser in their house, would abandon the home or find some way to force the intruder out. Rosalyn welcomes the company. She and her visitor have settled into a comfortable routine by the start of August. That's how she thinks of it- her visitor: the unidentified something that shuffles around the attic at night, never stealing or breaking, but moving the odd item while she sleeps. She's taken to setting a biscuit with butter and apricot preserves on the coffee table for it as part of her nightly routine. On the eighth morning, it brings something to her. Rosalyn peels away her sweaty sheet an

Dare by Tobaeus, literature

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Dare

Coral gazed into the surface at her own reflection. It looked scared. What a stupid thing to be, she thought. There’s nothing dangerous about this game. She scrunched her eyes shut anyway and thrust her hand into the surface. The cries of admiration from her friends made it worth it. “What does it feel like?” “Cold,” she said. “And heavy.” There wasn’t the same kind reassuring pressure she was used to. She pulled her hand back out slowly and felt the warmth return to her skin. The others would make fun if they knew how scary it had been, so she tried not to let her relief

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@FlashFictionMonth is a month long Flash Fiction writing event that has been running since 2009. Every July we ask you to write 31 pieces of flash fiction, providing you with numerous prompts, extra challenges, prizes, and an overwhelming amount of community love and support. For the last few years we have also organised these efforts through our group @FlashFictionMonth .

For the remaining 11 months of the year, you are welcome to share ANY and ALL (FFM related or not) flash fiction stories (under 1000 words, or thereabouts) to our "General Flash Fiction" folder for the edification of the masses.

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Flash Fiction Month 2022 Is Upon Us! by Flash-Fic-Month, journal

Flash Fiction Month 2022 Is Upon Us!

Jun 30, 2022

Hark, the herald angels sing; GLORY TO THE FFM. Again, and again, and again we rise in righteous glory to bring forth the most anticipated literature event in the world*! Yes indeed, wordsmiths, littérateurs, and scriveners, we are here to celebrate the THIRTEENTH annual sojourn into the wild depths of madness to write for thirty one days straight– WELCOME TO FLASH FICTION MONTH 2022! *Our lovely Hydra-lic world. Here. On dA. Flash Fiction Month kicks off this year on Friday the 13th! Actually, it's the thirteenth on the first. Well, more accurately it's Friday, July 1st, the 13th year of Flash Fiction Month. Haven't signed up yet? DO IT NOW. :stare: MOREOVER! You may have noticed a theme in the last sentence. Yes! Precisely! It's Flash Fiction Month. For the thirteenth time. Don't know what Flash Fiction Month is? Find out the answers to your burning questions right here. 2022 News for Veterans and Newbies alike: 1. Scales et al.: We are working with a skeleton crew

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FFM 2022 Sign-Up Page by Flash-Fic-Month, journal

FFM 2022 Sign-Up Page

Jun 9, 2022

Something sinister is coming. It slithers. It runs. It flies. It crawls. It stops and looks at you. It starts galloping straight towards you, papers full of words detailing the screams of the damned souls flying in its wake like a startled murder of crows. It’s yelling something about word counts and an ungodly challenge. You know exactly what it is. We know what you're thinking: It's dangerous. It's unseemly. It definitely doesn't fit in with my schedule! Writing 31 flash fiction stories in 31 days? Only a madman would undertake such a foolish venture. But luckily we're all mad here. If you'd like a chance to stretch your creative muscles, and push your fictional prowess to the limit, Flash Fiction Month is the event for you. Are you ready for a month of prompts, challenges, mixed metaphors and literary contortion-ism? Are you ready to witness the horrors, and wonders that lie beyond? Not sure what Flash Fiction Month is? Check out our shiny FAQ for all the sordid details,

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FFM 2021 Challenge Winners! by Flash-Fic-Month, journal

FFM 2021 Challenge Winners!

Aug 25, 2021

At last we are here to reveal the challenge winners of Flash Fiction Month 2021! To be eligible for the community-funded prize pool, writers needed to have completed all 31 days and all 14 challenges. Each week we asked you to choose your best and brightest challenge stories. These stories were submitted to various rounds of judging, where they poked and prodded, and their little story hearts were weighed on Anubis' scales to discover if they were +/- the weight of a feather. You know, all the standard stuff. For the thirteenth year running Flash Fiction Month is proud to reveal four overall winners based on the total challenge scores for the entirety of the month! The numbers have been tallied, and the tallies have been numbered, and now they have become sentient and started singing the praises of various writers. It's all a bit alarming to be honest. (On account of Eclipse, this is best viewed on a computer; we can't guarantee the behavior of formatting gremlins in any other

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Jul 16, 2022

Weeks ONE and TWO Challenge Journal!

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WEEKS ONE AND TWO, (or A Series Of July-itis Delays) CONGRATULATIONS! You’re halfway there, and you weren’t even sure that we were coming to talk to you today, were you? We left you wondering last week, didn’t we? Well, precious inkslayers, as say the youths, “hard same”. Please accept our profound apologies for making you put TWO WEEKS IN ONE POST*. In other words, A Twofer. Grab your coffee, tea, or squid ink and read on, soldiers. *The pain is mutual, and as recompense there will be a second GIF somewhere in this post. :bulletred: Please note that you are only eligible for the judging process if you have written a flash fiction story for every day so far, and completed every challenge. :bulletred: Week ONE (+1) Challenges If you've written a piece for every day of this month, and completed all the challenges so far, then link us to your ONE BEST challenge piece of the following Week One (and guest) challenges pieces in one post in the comments below. To remind you

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Flash Fiction Month 2022 Is Upon Us!

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Flash Fiction Month 2022 - DANGER Will Robinson!

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Hark! Yes, you read that correctly. Flash-Fic-Month is in danger! Hydra, the all seeing, all powerful beast is on the brink of extinction, and with that falls the mighty Flash Fiction Month, this delicious literature event that we've been running since 2009. We need volunteers in order to make this year happen. We need Hydra heads and we need Judges, but we can only look for judges if we have the infrastructure to run the event. Now, before you starting jonesing for it, please read the koalafications below. Hydra Head Requirements :bulletblue: COMMITTED: #1, first and foremost, above all things, hallelujah amen, Actually Available. Almost nothing else matters but this. Quite literally. Can you read? Doesn't matter. Be here. Now, we get that people have lives, because it'd be weird otherwise unless you’re a blob of neurons floating in space (no offense to any neurons floating in space, please apply), and truly that is why we have an evil, er, magnificent council of flesh--no

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WizardandGalaxy

Aug 27, 2022

Thank you so much again!

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Aug 24, 2022

Damn, thank you for the diamond badge on make a wish!!

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Aug 26, 2022

It was part of our randomized community contest awards! We threw badges into the abyss and one landed (perhaps fittingly) on your story!

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Aug 27, 2022

Oh I see! Well thank you all the same

Thanks!

Heyo! Was just wondering since FFM is this close: is it ok to post the FFM stories on some other platform and link to said platform? Or would a hybrid where the challenge entries are posted here on DA and the rest are posted only somewhere else be better? I'm trying to see how much I can avoid Eclipse in the following weeks when I get swallowed into the world of flashfic

Flash-Fic-Month

Jun 13, 2020

Our policy has always been open to people participating from different venues, so sure, go for it! As long as links are provided, and there's no need to sign up somewhere else to view it, it's all good.