2024 February Flash Fiction Challenge: Day 2
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 a story where the title appears in the story word-for-word.
For today's prompt, write a story where the title appears in the story word-for-word.
Remember: These prompts are just starting points; you have the freedom to go wherever your flash of inspiration takes you.
(Note: If your story gets flagged for review, be patient—we will be releasing comments every few hours throughout the weekdays of this challenge. Our system randomly flags comments for review, so just sit tight and wait for us to set it free! If you run into any other issues with posting your story, 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 a story where the title appears in the story:
Outside, the world is on fire
The news is playing images of a hospital halfway across the world. It’s been bombed. Children are screaming, blood cutting dark streaks through their rubble-dusted faces. “Breaking news!” is flashing across the screen, and it has been for days.
Meanwhile, she cries until she can’t draw breath because she spilled the breastmilk across the counter, and watches as it drips pointlessly onto the linoleum while the baby screams for help just down the hall. Her husband is sleeping after a long day at work.
Outside, the world is on fire. But inside, it feels a little bit on fire too.
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.
