Day 13: You find yourself in an abandoned shopping mall from the 1980s…

…leisurely making your way through the ruins when you begin to hear Muzak. As you near the sound, you realize there is one store still open, though you are unclear how it could possibly be open for business. “We’ve been waiting for you,” a cheerful sales lady says as she waves you over. “Quickly now!” she says, bustling you into the store, “the ritual is about to begin!” What happens next?

Today’s celebrity prompt comes from my favorite visionary and creative powerhouse: Selah Saterstrom!

*Selah Saterstrom is originally from the south. She is the author of five books: Rancher, Ideal Suggestions: Essays in Divinatory Poetics, Slab, The Meat and Spirit Plan, and The Pink Institution (one of my favorites). Her work has twice been nominated for the Believer Book Award.

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 selahsaterstrom.org 

Divination and Creative Writing:
fourqueens.org

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Day 12: The world’s going to end because of global warming, and your character does something unbelievably stupid. Now show how the action is perfectly logical.

Today’s celebrity prompt comes from veteran flash fiction writer and teacher David Galef!

*David Galef is an American fiction writer, critic, poet, translator, essayist, and author of the brilliant flash fiction guide Brevity: A Flash Fiction Handbook (Columbia University Press).

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author website: https://davidgalef.com/

Twitter/X: @dgalef, @vestalreview

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Day 11: A story in which you meet your past or future self

Today’s prompt comes from me! Make a wish xoxo

*Nancy Stohlman is the creator of FlashNano and a bunch of other things including books, workshops, retreats, and more!

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Day 10: Write a story that is 10 sentences, then take each sentence and rearrange their order to make a new story.

Today’s celebrity prompt comes from down under, thanks to the visionary Michelle Elvy!

*Michelle Elvy edits at AT THE BAY | I TO KOKORU, a literary organisation dedicated to Aotearoa New Zealand’s storytelling traditions and innovative new voices, founded in 2022. She is founding editor of the international literary journal Flash Frontier: An Adventure in Short Fiction and Aotearoa New Zealand’s  National Flash Fiction Day. She is Assistant Editor for the Best Small Fictions series and she has co-edited include Bonsai: Best small stories from Aotearoa New Zealand (Canterbury University Press), Ko Aotearoa Tātou | We Are New Zealand, an anthology celebrating contemporary New Zealand’s complex voices, experiences and ethnicities.

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