Use the following video clip to inspire your next piece of flash fiction. If this doesn’t strike a chord, you shouldn’t be writing anyway:

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Write a short story. The title of your story must contain at least three of the following words:

fish
winter
alien
turnip
ashen
travel
calendar
lunchbox
tradition
harmonica
silver

It’s really simple. Write the title, then write the story.
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Making Connections

Take a notebook and pen and go to Walmart, to the magazine section.
For 30-45 minutes, wander the isle, flipping open magazines at random. Pause before the shelf, close your eyes, reach out with your hand and choose one magazine. Flip it open and see if there’s a paragraph on the page that stands out. [...]

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Use the following to write your own piece of flash fiction:
Out of his wallet he handed me a colour photograph.
The edges dog eared, the white border greying, the surface cracked.
A girl stood in front of a liquor store.
She was wearing a long, blood red skirt. Full and flounced around her slim shins.
I knew by the [...]

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What if you had a second chance?
Use the following sentence to inspire a flash fiction piece about getting a second chance at life:
Today the med types called and told me that I probably don’t have a metastatic pheochromocytoma; that I have something weird, but I’m not gonna die after all.
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What did you expect, it’s Friday the 13th?
I couldn’t think of anything more suitable for this week’s flash fiction prompt. Well, except a little direction I guess.
So here it is:

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Write Your Own History
Here’s your flash fiction prompt for this week:
Take a current event in the news, maybe you want to write about the current recession or maybe you have some thing to say about the upcoming election. Anyway, whatever you choose to focus on use it to write a historical account of this event.
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