Weekendwritein Stories

This is a collection of quirky, tragic, serious, intimate, scary, and humorous flashfic all written with the goal of less-is-more! So take five minutes, relax and read a story, because the dishes can wait, the lawn isn't going anywhere, and if you're working from home, your boss will never know. Most of these stories were written in conjunction with the weekly prompt used in the Weekendwritein WP group. The story prompt is indicated in parenthesis with a hashtag. Additional flashfic outside of this collection is published on my WP profile. Cover photo: "Carrots" by Bob Shepard (Flickr) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode

We are a friendly group of writers who enjoy writing and sharing weekly flash fiction stories of 500 words or less. Everyone is welcome to join. Follow this profile for a one word prompt that is published each Friday. Post a link to your story in the appropriate chapter for each week's prompt. Be sure to check back to read and comment all the stories submitted.

Ragnhild Eilifsdotter is a Huldrekin, people related to the trolls of Norway, but more human-like. The men kept the people living under hill for centuries, so as soon as they were let out she moved to Seattle to experience some freedom. Unfortunately even the New World has rules and Ragnhild has to do a favor for a troll, always a tricky prospect.

500-word story for the December 12, 2025 weekend write-in prompt - polish

The Weekend Write-in is a group of writers who each week draft and share a piece of flash fiction of 500 words or less inspired by a one word prompt released every Friday. If interested follow the link below. https://www.wattpad.com/story/400213593-the-weekend-write-in-volume-6 TheWriter'sDen (Kitra Writes) can be found in Discord. Hosted by Struggo. https://discord.com/channels/713402078378065940/713403036357361776 I reversed the order so oldest are last and newest are first.

How to capture it all? I was no photographer My paint brushes, I have retired And words simply do not belong On a cover The same way they fit In my mouth, or march along the surface Of these pages. How to capture it all? The sounds, the smells, the blurring lights as life rushes past me. The things I feel but have not found reflected around me. The images that Undoubtedly Would stop the carbon copy of myself And urge, "Read me." How to capture it all? But some questions and answers Like some estranged partners Walk on opposite sides of the road. So I draw one line to the next Connecting the right And what's left of the unknown Into the semblance of a city. I scrawl above, Cement City. - Sticker made by @Pipwusa. 🥇 First Place in Poetry - Sunflower Awards 3.0 🥉 Third Place in Poetry - Borderverse Awards Season 2

Flash fiction for the Weekend Write-In

100-word story for the December 19, 2025 weekend write-in prompt - arouse

A collection of twenty short stories from various prompts. Table of Contents: 1. List - What happens when a guy finds a "list"... with his name on it? 2. The Editor - Do you like to be "first"? 3. Day at the Office - Something interesting happened on a Friday afternoon. ~First Place @ScienceFiction Contest for the Month of March, 2109. 4. Ping - Being "transparent." 5. Vacation - Barcelona, Spain - Tell us what happens when there's a "vacation." (Republish of a challenge written for Microbyte Stories.) 6. The Unfortunate Cheese Incident - Tell us what happens when the "weather" affects the outcome. (Republish of a challenge written for News of March.) 7. Slow - Tell us what happens when it is "slow." 8. Day 376 - Tell us what happens when it "repeats". 9. Procrastination - Tell us what happens when "tomorrow" is significant 10. Don't Stop - Tell us what happens when it "stops." (Trigger warnings: War, PTSD, and the aftermath of suicide) 11. Get In Loser... - Tell us a story about your alien friend. 12. The Listening of Dr. Asimov - Tell us what happens when it is "different." 13. The Listening of the Anstead Trial, Part 1 - Tell us what happens when there is a "bonus". 14. Without My Glasses - You've worn glasses all your life, but one day, you forget them. You realize you can see something no one else can. 15. Marvin the Marvelous - The artifact: A shoe; The unlikely hero: some alien lifeform; The riddle: What has a tongue, but doesn't speak? 16. The Scent of Tears - Part one of a 7x7x7 writer's prompt. 17. On Being Human - Part two of a 7x7x7 writer's prompt. 18. Writer's Block - Part three of a 7x7x7 writer's prompt. 19. Ice Cream in Heaven - Write an excerpt of a story based on the given sentence, "Oliver-that was his name." 20. Tired - In 500 words (or 100 words if you prefer), tell what happens when something is tired.

A collection of 500-word stories for @The_Weekend_Write-In

Not one to give up, not one to shy away, let's see if I can write consistently after all these years!

In 500 words, tell a story in which love is unrequited. Written or the WriteOn Weekend Write-In prompt "Unrequited", 12-14 February 2016. Young Catherine begins the maturing process.

Flash fiction stories based on one word prompts coming in at 500 words, give or take.

Another volume of tales from the Weekend Write-In.

Written for the Weekend Write-In: "temptation": In 500 words, tell what happens when there is temptation

Weekly 'Weekend Write-In' prompted flash fiction under 500 words starting the week of September 13, 2019.

Collection of short stories. Some are for contests or story prompts.

Short stories written to prompts in 2025. * -'Blooming Cheek', Weekend Write-In 8.8.25 - prompt: 'resistance' -'Textual Healing', Shortys 2025 (2000-5000 words category). Prompt was: "Write about a romance which starts with a mistaken identity text." -'The Wanderers', Weekend Write-In 3.10.25 - prompt: 'frontier'. Got a bit political in this one. Not sorry. -'Afterglow', inspired by Weekend Write-In 14.11.25 - prompt: 'dignity'. Not submitted, as it was way over the informal word limit. -'A New Girl', written for the untiring @BooksbyLwordpress's Fall Contest 2025. Dani has lost control of her life, but finds hope over lunch in a cosy cafe. -'Far-off Fountains', Weekend Write-In 05.12.25 - prompt: 'torrent'. -'A True Love's Knot', Weekend Write-In 12.12.25 - prompt: 'polish'

Sometimes we complain about petty things, not realizing how good life can be until disaster strikes, causing us to put things in perspective. I was thinking about the Ukrainians and the terrible war they are suffering. It made me realize how lucky most of us are. And I decided to write this 500-word story as an anti-war metaphor. For the April 29, 2022 weekend write-in prompt *guarantee*

500-word story for the April 25, 2025 weekend write-in prompt - three