2025 February Flash Fiction Challenge: Day 8
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 to from an animal’s perspective.
Week two is officially starting! Usually by now, we have most of the crew that will be participating through the month showing up in the comments. I hope that you're finding the community welcoming and fun! Don't forget to comment on each other's stories about what you like most—that is the most fun part of the WD community.
Today's prompt is to write from an animal's perspective.
(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 from an animal's perspective:
Teeth
The teeth caught the fox unaware. It sprang up from under the blanket of leaves covering the soft forest floor, glinting meanly in the moonlight. The fox screamed and thrashed, but the teeth were unmovable, silent. The fox struggled, gasped, begged—until it resorted to using teeth of his own.
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.
