Day 17: Write a story in which a child must parent their elder

(Inspiration: In Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut, Kilgore Trout tries to write a short story about meeting his father in heaven, but his father has decided to spend the afterlife as himself at nine-years-old while Trout enters heaven as a forty-four year old man. )

Today’s celebrity prompt comes from a fellow Coloradoan, the lovely and award-winning Kali Fajardo-Anstine!

Kali Fajardo-Anstine’s first book isthe widely acclaimed short story collection Sabrina & Corina (Random House, 2019), a finalist for the National Book Award, the PEN/Bingham Prize, the Story Prize, the Saroyan International Prize, and winner of a American Book Award and a Reading the West Award in Fiction.

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https://www.kalifajardoanstine.com/

@Kalimaja on Instagram 

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Day 16: Write a story that takes place before sunrise…

Today’s celebrity prompt comes from me! xoxo

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After the Rapture: a flash novel

Going Short: An Invitation to Flash Fiction

Open Your Art: Flash Fiction Retreats 
(1 spot left for Costa Rica 2024!)

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Day 15: Take a story you’ve drafted. Cut it in half word-wise.

Then add an orange balloon to it.

Today’s celebrity prompt comes from the extraodinary Sherrie Flick!

Sherrie Flick is the author of a novel and two short story collections. Her debut essay collection, Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist is forthcoming from University of Nebraska Press in Fall 2024. She served as the series editor for The Best Small Fictions 2018  with guest editor Aimee Bender and is co-editor with James Thomas and John Dufresne for Flash Fiction America (W.W. Norton, 2022).

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www.sherrieflick.com

And the amazing new Norton anthology Flash Fiction America

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Day 14: One Breathless Sentence:

Think of a distant memory, one perhaps you have not written about (or might have a while ago). Then with either pen to page, or fingers to tablet, begin!!! Do your best not to stop- this is an exercise in freeing up the cognitive process- Punctuation be gone! 

Today’s celebrity prompt comes from the Marvelous Mr. Robert Vaughan: flash writer, publisher, educator and inspiration-maker!

*Robert Vaughan is the author of six poetry, fiction and cross-genre writing books including his latest: Askew (Cowboy Jamboree Press, 2022). He teaches writing retreats at locations like Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, NM; and Synergia Ranch outside of Santa Fe, NM. He also hosts online courses for Bending Genres, 2018. He is the Editor-In-Chief at Bending Genres.

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robert-vaughan.com
www.bendinggenres.com.

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