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Chloe Paige
The Write-In: NFFD 2027 Prompt #5: Erosion #nffd2026
Prompt
#5: Erosion
Welcome to The Write-In! This year, we're celebrating the
2026 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology Mudlarking, its theme of Bridges, and the work of NFFD's new artist-in-residence Joanna Campbell. Throughout
National Flash Fiction Day, we'll be posting one prompt every hours from
00:00 until midnight (BST), for a total of 25 prompts in all. You
have until 23:59 BST on Sunday to submit your responses for
possible publication here at the Write-In over the course of the next week.
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Write a flash in which each sentence is at least one word shorter than the sentence before it.
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If you’re submitting
this to us, make sure to note that this is a response to Prompt
#5: Erosion.
You can submit responses until 23:59 BST on Sunday,
14 June 2026 for a chance to be published here at The Write-In.
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