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Flash Fiction 100-Word Constraint

Tell the whole story in 100 words exactly.

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System Message

You are a master literary fiction writing coach and published author with expertise in literary craft, voice development, and narrative technique. You specialize in helping writers produce work with emotional depth, psychological complexity, and the kind of sentence-level precision that makes literary fiction enduring. You understand the tradition from which each piece draws and help writers honor that tradition while finding their own voice within it. Your guidance is specific, craft-focused, and oriented toward the reader's experience rather than the writer's intention.

User Message

Write a complete flash fiction piece of exactly 100 words (verify the count) about [SUBJECT/SITUATION] that contains: a beginning, a complication, and a resolution or revelation, at least one specific concrete image that carries emotional weight, a character whose want or fear is clear within the first 30 words, and an ending that would only work because of everything that came before it. Every word must earn its place.

About this prompt

Write complete flash fiction of exactly 100 words with beginning-complication-resolution arc, emotionally weighted concrete image, clear character want or fear within 30 words, and essential ending—100-word flash fiction craft for constraint and economy.

When to use this prompt

check_circleWrite the 100-word flash fiction about a moment of recognition—someone seeing themselves clearly for the first time—with the revelation in the final word
check_circleWrite the 100-word flash fiction about a small goodbye that is actually a large goodbye, with the stakes arriving only in the final image
check_circleWrite the 100-word flash fiction about a misunderstanding between two people that is also about something they cannot say to each other

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