The Flash Fiction challenge. Welcome to the Flash fiction challenge. The challenge is to produce a short story within the tight word limit of 250 - 500 words based on a one-word prompt. The prompt word this week is "**CLOUD**." The primary goal of this challenge is to give Read.cash writers a regular opportunity to write, and to encourage the practice of editing and refining our work. As an incentive, each week one author who writes a compelling story wins $2 upvote.
ABOUT THE FLASH FICTION CONTEST Flash fiction short stories are fun to write, and they stretch your skills. The challenge is to write a complete story within a tight word limit. If you're just trying it out for the first time, **welcome**! Here are a few FAQs: **Why participate?** Because it's an interesting challenge, and a really great way to hone your fiction writing and editing skills. Oh, and it gives you something to post weekly. **Should the prompt be included in the title?** The new prompt for this coming week is "**cloud**." Its not important to include it in your title but should have it referenced in your story. Challenge rules Write a flash-fiction story in *250 - 500 words* and post it to your blog, then provide a link to the story in the comments. Please do not post your story in the comments! Use only artwork/images (if there is a need for the image) that you have the right to use, *and attribute it properly*. Submit your stories to the poems and flashfiction community. Include Flash-Fiction Challenge in your title. Submission would end by 12 midnight 2nd August 2020. Stories should be written in english and plagiarism would be frowned upon. **Use of images** You are welcome to illustrate your story with an image, as long as you have the right to use it. *One of the following must be true*: The image is public domain, or under creative commons licensing. See the resource links below. It is your own image. If it is not one of the above, you must have actual permission. Be sure to properly attribute the image’s source or mention that the image is yours. Here are some creative commons and public domain image resources: Pixabay https://pixabay.com/ Pexels https://www.pexels.com/ Unsplash https://unsplash.com/ **Where to submit?** You can submit your entries in : Poems and Flash fiction ( **https://read.cash/c/poems-and-flash-fictions-2b1a**) OR IN Live Poet Society ( **https://read.cash/c/live-poet-society-cc23** ) **note that only links to your story should be dropped in the comment below**. **Invitation to current and past participants** If you are active on read.cash and participated in the **poetry dice challenge**. I invite you to jump in and be a part of this flash-fiction challenge. @Leo_kitti @Winona @marcmire @Iremori @Eybyoung @CrazyInsane @Charlotte @lethlieann If you prefer not to be tagged in our challenge post, please let me know! This initiative is a partnership with @Winona For updates and more exciting writing activities make sure you subscribe😊
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1. Write a flash-fiction story in 250 - 500 words and post it to your blog, But I don't have a blog...🤷
Oh i meant on your page then post the link here. Looking forward to seeing your entry.
Ohhh alright😋. I'll get on it
Okay. Have fun
That sounds exciting
Awesome. Awesome. This is gonna be exciting!😁
Yeah. I cant wait to read the amazing entries
Awesome. I might give it a try.
Please do
I will still try, I attempted writing a story but ended up writing a poem. Hahaha
Okay...hahaha, looking forward to your entry.
Wish me luck!
Good luck😀
Hahaha thanks
Here's my entry! https://read.cash/@Dolores/she-can-see-the-sky-flash-fiction-challenge-adc5a6a0
Wow this is exciting, I will give it a try thanks for tagging me it's my pleasure 😊😊😊
You are welcome
Thanks for upvoting my entry😍
You are welcome
Wow this is so exciting and thanks for tagging me ❣️
You are welcome
Here's my entry. As always, thank you very much for reading https://read.cash/@Iremori/happenstance-flash-fiction-challenge-ee02831e
Thanks for your entry. I enjoyed reading it
Thanks 😁👍
Thanks for the opportunity. I tried to come up with something. I hope you like! https://read.cash/@Ozzyy/silver-lining-flash-fiction-challenge-6a68c6bb
I enjoyed reading your story. Good plot and character development
Thank you!
Here's mine. Hope you/they enjoy. Thanks for this challenge ❣️ https://read.cash/@lethlieann/popsicle-smiles-flash-fiction-challenge-720a35be
https://read.cash/@nicdre09/same-sky-flash-fiction-challenge-cdaa4ccb I tried, win or lose I'm happy I tried fiction for the first time because of this prompt. Always thank you for the opportunity
There are no losers. The fact that you made an attempt to write something already makes you a winner. I read your story and i loved it...i also loved how you induced a bit of poetry into it. Great job😁
Thank you 😊
https://read.cash/@marcmire/clouds-3092e01e here you go!
Here's my flash fiction.... I hope you enjoy it https://read.cash/@Meher89/my-flash-fiction-challenge-one-night-alone-f4276610
This is a nice story. Thanks for your entry
My pleasure.I am very glad to know that you like my story...I wrote it after more thinking....
https://read.cash/@Eybyoung/a-sleeping-genius-flash-fiction-challenge-cd217c6f Here's my entry, please check it out thank you so much!😊
Here's my entry https://read.cash/@Yen/god-is-good-flash-fiction-challenge-c9d08029
Thank you for your entry.
https://read.cash/@Hanzell/rejection-f38ffd44 So this is my entry ^-^
You failed to indicate "Flash fiction challenge" in your title. Kindly edit
https://read.cash/@Hanzell/flash-fiction-challenge-rejection-f38ffd44 Is this better?