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).

CHECK OUT:

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.

CHECK OUT:
robert-vaughan.com
www.bendinggenres.com.

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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.

CHECK OUT:

 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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