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Picture Prompt: Photo Credit: https://pixabay.com/photos/monastery-church-architecture-abbey-4169566/ 300-word Flash Fiction Post # 31 Week Ending: 1/23/2026 Genre: Drama Title: What's Wrong With Me?    I’m Anna Wilkins, CEO of a successful business I founded and revered by women everywhere. I own vacation homes, luxury cars, yachts, a jet. Yet I find myself wandering the streets in a daze, asking myself outloud, “Why am I so miserable?”    Just then my eyes fall upon a build

Picture Prompt: Photo Credit: https://pixabay.com/photos/fireworks-celebrations-colour-3806260/ 300-word Flash Fiction Post # 30 Week Ending: 1/9/2026 Genre: Thriller Title: Training Prevailed    It was a spectacular show. If only they knew...     The clock had just struck midnight a few minutes prior. The firework display was in full swing and I felt the concuss of every explosion, popping so fast and hard it almost rivaled the racing of my heart. Sulfur filled the air with

Picture Prompt Photo Credit: https://pixabay.com/photos/christmas-christmas-ball-decor-9187543/ 300-word Flash Fiction Post # 29 Week Ending: 1/2/2026 Genre: Drama Title: Tears Began To Fall… Again    Holidays made Sydney Ferrier feel the loneliest. Seven years since her mom passed, six years since her dad restored a vintage red car for her sixteenth birthday, then deployed overseas on some top secret mission, and over three years since traveling across country, from all of h

Picture Prompt: Photo Credit: https://pixabay.com/photos/tram-snow-winter-night-9296118/ 300-word Flash Fiction Post # 28 Week Ending: 12/26/2025 Genre: Drama Title: The Healing Spirit of Recovery    Brenna Doan waited on a cold bench. Her butt numb, but nothing compared to her emotions.     He was her forever—why’d he do this to her? Seven years, she poured everything into a relationship he cast aside like a sock—easier to discard than darn.     Brenna trembled, with chill a

Picture Prompt: Photo Credit: https://pixabay.com/photos/reussstein-castle-russias-stone-2779392/ 300-word Flash Fiction Post # 27 Week Ending: 12/12/2025 Genre: Fiction Title: The Great Castle Ruin of Schmidt    Devon Smith had always felt a draw to go on a hike to see the Great Castle Ruin of Schmidt. When he laid eyes upon it at the age of five in a magazine, he felt an immediate kinship with it and no idea why.     Now, twenty years later, he'd finally check it off his bu

Picture Prompt: Photo Credit: https://pixabay.com/photos/chess-black-chess-pieces-6872239/ 300-word Flash Fiction Post # 26 Week Ending: 12/5/2025 Genre: Fantasy Title: Ultraheightened Senses    The stakes were so high, all six of Tobias's senses were ultraheightened.     He was very aware of the hard seat beneath him and the stagnant, warm air lingering in the room. His vision was so crisp, he could not only see his opponent well, but every pore throughout the goblin’s green

Picture Prompt: Photo Credit: https://pixabay.com/photos/sailing-ship-training-ship-ship-4534949/ 300-word Flash Fiction Post # 25 Week Ending: 11/28/2025 Genre: Alternate History Title: Battling the Waves    In a parallel universe, there is a version of history where the Mayflower and company never arrived in America. The story below is an account of how that transpired:    The crew of the ship had traveled for days. The journey had been relatively smooth and they were makin

Picture Prompt: Photo Credit: https://pixabay.com/photos/landscape-wall-china-mountain-asia-4055549/ 300-word Flash Fiction Post # 24 Week Ending: 11/21/2025 Genre: Adventure Title: The Heirloom Seal of the Realm    I've dedicated my life in quest for an artifact. The Heirloom Seal of the Realm; an imperial seal—made of jade—for Emperor Qin Shi Huang. It disappeared in the tenth century. One of the most valuable lost artifacts ever.     Painstaking determination has led me to

Picture Prompt Photo Credit: https://pixabay.com/photos/hedge-labyrinth-maze-green-4476859/ 300-word Flash Fiction Post # 23 Week Ending: 11/14/2025 Genre: Romantasy Title: Leaf-Laden Labyrinth    Ramona reached the immaculately manicured hedges; a maze of green, leafy Lego blocks. With a keen eye, she noticed a pink bead looped over one of the branches.     She knew it was for her. It was her favorite color after all.     Ramona plucked it from the twig and placed it in the

Picture Prompt Photo Credit: https://pixabay.com/photos/chenonceaux-chateau-tourism-2733125/ 300-500-word Flash Fiction Post # 22 Week Ending: 11/7/2025 Genre: Adventure Title: Odyssey    What an odyssey…    I've searched seven castles, yet my quest remains unfulfilled.     I’m at the last possible fortress to find my quest’s end. It lies upon grounds among flower beds and greenery, but make no mistake, scoundrels abound. I barely make it to the castle gates alive.     I feel

Picture Prompt: Photo Credit:  https://pixabay.com/illustrations/the-park-gate-stone-fence-autumn-7458016/ 300-500-word Flash Fiction Post # 21 Week Ending: 10/31/2025 Genre: Horror Title: Archway    “I'm not going with you!”    “C’mon, Fiona, it'll be cool. Nobody else has been brave enough to do it.”    “There's a reason for that, Sierra.”    “Seriously, we'll just walk through and look around a bit. We’ll be the only two to confirm the truth about the archway.”    “It's cr

Picture Prompt: Photo Credit: https://pixabay.com/photos/candles-pumpkins-witch-skull-1868640/ 300-500-word Flash Fiction Post # 20 Week Ending: 10/24/2025 Genre: Horror Title: The Legend of the Jackalope    The legend of the Jackalope has become a humorous tale. Jokes about a furry bunny with antlers. Even the Cult-followed comedy, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, depicts a viscous rabbit derived from Jackalope lore. Their true history, however, is not so funny.     They wer

Picture Prompt Photo Credit: https://www.vecteezy.com/photo/70377932-celestial-planet-landscape-mountain-range-snowy-terrain 300-500-word Flash Fiction Post # 19  Week Ending: 10/17/2025 Genre: Thriller Title: Just One Shot We've got just one shot!     Gwen and I stumble through rough terrain, covered in snow. It's difficult to see where to step. The rocky hills and small, jagged mountains are indicators of what's under the six inches of powder. There are only thick layers of

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Picture Prompt 300-word Flash Fiction Post # 17 Week Ending: 10/03/2025 Genre: Fantasy Title: Fairies    We are the last colony that...

Picture Prompt 300-word Flash Fiction Post # 16 Week Ending 09/26/2025 Genre: Horror Title: Strange Little Box Ellie never felt fear in...

Picture Prompt 300-word Flash Fiction Post # 15 Week Ending: 09/19/2025 Genre: Drama Title: Two Milestones Down    Two milestones down....

Picture Prompt 300-word Flash Fiction Post # 14 Week Ending: 09/12/2025 Genre: Thriller Title: Thou Shalt Not Kill    Griffin saw the...

Picture Prompt 300-word Flash Fiction Post # 13 Week Ending: 09/05/2025 Genre: Drama Title: My Warren    Talk about a symbiotic...

Picture Prompt 300-word Flash Fiction Post # 12 Week Ending: 08/29/2025 Genre: Fantasy Title: Unusual Village    I had just finished the...