2023 February Flash Fiction Challenge: Day 11
Write a piece of flash fiction each day of February with the February Flash Fiction Challenge, led by Managing Editor Moriah Richard. Each day, receive a prompt, example story, and write your own. Today’s prompt is to write about two opposite people.
For today’s prompt, write about two opposite people.
Remember: These prompts are just starting points; you have the freedom to go wherever your flash of inspiration takes you.
(Note: If you happen to run into any issues posting, please just send me an e-mail at mrichard@aimmedia.com with the subject line: Flash Fiction Challenge Commenting Issue.)
Here’s my attempt at writing about two opposite people:
Infertility
The doctor tells them the news, and they don’t yet know what to ask.
“Take time to process,” the doctor says.
Their car ride passes in silence.
“I want a second opinion,” he says. “But even if she’s right, there are options.”
She wants to tell him that she’s afraid this is a wound she won’t know how to heal. That her body is not a problem he can solve—that all she wants is for him to hold her.
“I want a cheeseburger,” she says instead.
His eyes cut to her for just a second. “’Course, babe. Anything.”
Since obtaining her MFA in fiction, Moriah Richard has worked with over 100 authors to help them achieve their publication dreams. As the managing editor of Writer’s Digest magazine, she spearheads the world-building column Building Better Worlds, a 2023 Eddie & Ozzie Award winner. She also runs the Flash Fiction February Challenge on the WD blog, encouraging writers to pen one microstory a day over the course of the month and share their work with other participants. As a reader, Moriah is most interested in horror, fantasy, and romance, although she will read just about anything with a great hook.
Learn more about Moriah on her personal website.
