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Prompt #8: Strange Connection Welcome to The Write-In! This year, we're celebrating the 2026 National Flash Fiction Day Anthology theme of Bridges. 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. * The word bridge gets used a lot as a metaphor. For this prompt, write a flash in which a bridge — an actual, physical, structural bridge — does something unexpected, means something unusual, or is used in a way bridges are not normally used. To make this prompt extra challenging, the following are not allowed: a bridge as a suicide location, a bridge as the setting for a romantic proposal, the phrase 'build bridges', any bridge that collapses, etc. This is your invitation to some place new, strange, uncanny, off-kilter, silly or just plain weird! * If you’re submitting this to us, make sure to note that this is a response to Prompt 8: Strange Connection. You can submit responses until 23:59 BST on Sunday, 14 June 2026 for a chance to be published here at The Write-In. You can claim the badge for this prompt by visiting our badges page. --- Photograph of the Golden Bridge with hand sculptures in Da Nang, Vietnam by Kirandeep Singh Walia via pexels.