/lit/ - Literature

While /ffa/ is between official volumes, we’re joining /wg/ for those who want to practice writing and discussing flash fiction!

How it works:
1. Choose a prompt (full list of unused prompts in following post)
2. Write a story 1,000 words or less based on the prompt
3. Post it in /wg/ with the tag [for FFA]
4. Add a new prompt for the list

Anyone posting for the /ffa/ accepts that their work may be made available online (Creative Commons) or in print (available for purchase at lowest possible cost).

There’s only the lightest editing (typos, etc) so garbage-in garbage-out. While there are not quality/content requirements (aside from porn, extreme abuse or gore) that doesn’t guarantee all submissions get added.

Prior three volumes available for free (pdf, epub):
https://archive.org/details/@_lit_anthology

And print (low cost) here:
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/anonymous-/gifts-evil-and-good/paperback/product-mgwkgv.html
https://www.lulu.com/en/ca/shop/anonymous-/rags-and-bones/paperback/product-9d7gp2.html
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/anonymous-/simian-deluxe/paperback/product-y6z687.html

>>19793569
While /ffa/ is between official volumes, we’re joining /wg/ for those who want to practice writing and discussing flash fiction!

How it works:
1. Choose a prompt (full list of unused prompts in following post)
2. Write a story 1,000 words or less based on the prompt
3. Post it in /wg/ with the tag [for FFA]
4. Add a new prompt for the list

Anyone posting for the /ffa/ accepts that their work may be made available online (Creative Commons) or in print (available for purchase at lowest possible cost).

There’s only the lightest editing (typos, etc) so garbage-in garbage-out. While there are not quality/content requirements (aside from porn, extreme abuse or gore) that doesn’t guarantee all submissions get added.

Prior three volumes available for free (pdf, epub):
https://archive.org/details/@_lit_anthology

And print (low cost) here:
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/anonymous-/gifts-evil-and-good/paperback/product-mgwkgv.html
https://www.lulu.com/en/ca/shop/anonymous-/rags-and-bones/paperback/product-9d7gp2.html
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/anonymous-/simian-deluxe/paperback/product-y6z687.html

>>19776013
Wow, calm down….I literally posted 2 min before you did.

> Unused prompts
A closet full of skin suits
A dating app with extraordinary risks and rewards
The academy of Paranormal Life Coaching
This will be India in 5 minutes
>What? I can’t hear you! [completed]
A first responder who summons tornadoes
A grizzled detective goes undercover on 4chan
You reap what you sow
"Please don't forget what I told you"
The location the GPS took them to seems to be a little off
A tapestry constantly being added to
Murder in the Cathedral's sanctuary
The cellar houses wine and... bodies?
Finding a one-of-a-kind book in the library stacks
A co-worker has a hidden talent
A shut-in decides to go trick-or-treating
The best way to die on a dessert island
Horrible timing for a pregnancy announcement
A game of twister at a nursing home
There is a ship museum in Utah
A librarian goes blind every Thursday
Someone crashes a child’s birthday party
POV of an alley cat in Istanbul
An unusual item at the bottom of the sea
Pina coladas and long walks in the rain
A gateway opens between hell and earth
a slasher villain's first date
An elevator that doesn't work
>A flooded castle, sinking into the mud [In progress]
Why robot teachers were discontinued
A very lost succubus
Gender Selection Day
The whales save themselves
Elevators have been portals this entire time
Seven-year-old serial killer
>A minor god trying to prove its existence [in progress]
Japanese ghost fish
The hitman hired to kill himself
What lives beneath the moss
An embarrassing phobia

>>19763308
>>19768014
>>19769969
>>19771146

Just a reminder, between official generals /ffa/ still exists…and it’s haunting /wg/!

While /ffa/ is between official volumes, we’re joining /wg/ for those who want to practice writing and discussing flash fiction!

How it works:
1. Choose a prompt (full list of unused prompts in following post)
2. Write a story 1,000 words or less based on the prompt
3. Post it in /wg/ with the tag [for FFA]
4. Add a new prompt for the list

Anyone posting for the /ffa/ accepts that their work may be made available online (Creative Commons) or in print (available for purchase at lowest possible cost).

There’s only the lightest editing (typos, etc) so garbage-in garbage-out. While there are not quality/content requirements (aside from porn, extreme abuse or gore) that doesn’t guarantee all submissions get added.

Prior three volumes available for free (pdf, epub):
https://archive.org/details/@_lit_anthology

And print (low cost) here:
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/anonymous-/gifts-evil-and-good/paperback/product-mgwkgv.html
https://www.lulu.com/en/ca/shop/anonymous-/rags-and-bones/paperback/product-9d7gp2.html
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/anonymous-/simian-deluxe/paperback/product-y6z687.html

Just a reminder that while /ffa/ is between official volumes, we’re joining /wg/ for those who still want to practice writing and discussing flash fiction!

How it works:
1. Choose a prompt (full list of unused prompts below)
2. Write a story 1,000 words or less based on the prompt
3. Post it in /wg/ with the tag [for FFA]
4. Add a new prompt for the list

Prior three volumes available for free (pdf, epub):
https://archive.org/details/@_lit_anthology

And print (low cost) here:
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/anonymous-/gifts-evil-and-good/paperback/product-mgwkgv.html
https://www.lulu.com/en/ca/shop/anonymous-/rags-and-bones/paperback/product-9d7gp2.html
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/anonymous-/simian-deluxe/paperback/product-y6z687.html

>Unused prompts
A closet full of skin suits
A dating app with extraordinary risks and rewards
The academy of Paranormal Life Coaching
This will be India in 5 minutes
What? I can’t hear you!
A first responder who summons tornadoes
A grizzled detective goes undercover on 4chan
You reap what you sow
"Please don't forget what I told you"
The location the GPS took them to seems to be a little off
A tapestry constantly being added to
Murder in the Cathedral's sanctuary
The cellar houses wine and... bodies?
Finding a one-of-a-kind book in the library stacks
A co-worker has a hidden talent
A shut-in decides to go trick-or-treating
The best way to die on a dessert island
Horrible timing for a pregnancy announcement
A game of twister at a nursing home
There is a ship museum in Utah
A librarian goes blind every Thursday
Someone crashes a child’s birthday party
POV of an alley cat in Istanbul
An unusual item at the bottom of the sea
Pina coladas and long walks in the rain
A gateway opens between hell and earth
a slasher villain's first date
An elevator that doesn't work
>A flooded castle, sinking into the mud [in progress]

>>19479070
>/ffa/ Flash Fiction Anthology welcome.

While /ffa/ is between official volumes, we’re joining /wg/ for those who want to practice writing and discussing flash fiction!

How it works:
1. Choose a prompt (full list of unused prompts: >>19453942)
2. Write a story (1,000 words or less) based on the prompt
3. Post it in /wg/ with the tag [for FFA]
Full details here: >>19455935
4. Add a new prompt for the list

Prior three volumes available for free (pdf, epub):
https://archive.org/details/@_lit_anthology

And print (low cost) here:
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/anonymous-/gifts-evil-and-good/paperback/product-mgwkgv.html
https://www.lulu.com/en/ca/shop/anonymous-/rags-and-bones/paperback/product-9d7gp2.html
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/anonymous-/simian-deluxe/paperback/product-y6z687.html

>>19455403
We should not make assumptions about what the /ffa/ editor-anon is going to do until he weighs in. Compiling/editing one of these volumes is a significant amount of work, and in the last thread he implied the next volume will likely begin in 2022.

Generally, the way /ffa/ works is that all flashes collected within an official thread is added to the volume. Volumes 1 and 2 stayed open until we hit 50, volume 3 was open until a set deadline (and we still ended up with 50). Flashes completed between volumes, or not based on prompts from that thread, may make for great reading/discussion but are not (as a rule) added to the next volume.

That said, we’ve got a pretty decent number of flashes now that have fallen between the cracks, and it may not take many more to get to 50. I’m willing to put the time into compiling them and (worse yet) monitoring /wg/ to see if any new ones were added. There’s no guarantee they’ll ever see the light of day in hard-copy, but I’ll see what’s do-able.

For now, I’ll collect any flashes in this thread which:
>Are tagged with [for FFA] (or similar).
>Are 1,000 words or less
>Are original works written from a unique thread prompt (rare exceptions have been made for ‘unprompted’ flashes and duplicate prompts)

Anyone posting for the /ffa/ accepts that their work is made available online or in print. Feel free to tag with [*Not for FFA*] if you want to participate in-thread only, without being added to any anthology.

There’s only the lightest editing (typos, etc) so garbage-in garbage-out. While there are not quality/content requirements (aside from porn, extreme abuse or gore) that doesn’t mean all submissions get added.

-Cover-Anon (who is surely going to regret this…)

>>17634848
While this thread is focusing on editing and formatting the anthology, I (not editor-anon) started a thread for those who want to continue creating and reading new flash fiction.

[not editor-anon]
>>17573960
While the main /ffa/ thread is focusing on editing and formatting the anthology, this thread is for those who want to continue creating new flash fiction.

There is no guarantee that flashes created here will make it into any future anthologies. These are all * entries, just for fun and practice.

Requirements
>1,000-word maximum. No porn, extreme abuse or gore.

Some selected prompts from the last thread (feel free to post more, or to write unprompted):
>A man is forced to keep a very cursed item
>A singer discovers they can hypnotise people with their voice
>A man slips out of his body after a car accident and can't find his way back
>A schizophrenic gets lost inside their own hallucinations
>A shark discovers shark fin soup
>A Venetian art collector considers his or her paintings as the villa is flooding
>Memoir from an FBI agent assigned to monitor CWC