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— Take a photo of a wild animal in motion.
— Write a letter to a fictional person that annoys you, such as the person who stepped on your foot.
— Write a story about somebody who falls through a bowl of tomato soup and into a magical land! To submit to this month’s Flash Contest, click here.
— Create a fictional politician, and write them a “stump speech.” What policies do they support? What is their personality like?
— Write a story about the person in your life who annoys you the most and why.
— Create a new idiom or metaphor, and write a conversation containing it.
— Take a photo of somebody going about their daily life.
— Pretend you’re explaining COVID-19 to people in the distant past, and write a scene around this. To submit to this month’s Flash Contest, click here.
— Write about an academic fail, such as flunking a test, and a character’s recovery from it.
— Write a short story that begins and ends in this place: Fisherman’s Cottage (1906) by Harald Sohlberg (1869-1935).