2025 February Flash Fiction Challenge: Day 17
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 an unlikely team.
For today's prompt, write about an unlikely team.
(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 about an unlikely team.:
Unified
The shoplifter hit their store every third Thursday of the month. Management was fairly stumped, but it was never anything expensive enough to be overly fussed about. She wounded their pride, a minor annoyance.
The cashier at dock 1 knew exactly what the shoplifter did. Every third Thursday, their eyes met. Connection fizzled.
But the cashier made minimum wage; this was her second job. And they refused her request for a raise, even though she’d been working there for three years.
Screw them, she thought again and again, her eyes sliding away from the shoplifter, minding her own damn business.
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.
