Flashback Microcosm

Write a piece of flash fiction that takes your readers from a moment of startling revelation back through key memories of your protagonist’s life.

This prompt is all about distilling a full lifetime into about 500 words. Condense and curate significant events from your character’s life to show how they have led to this moment of realization. The challenge is to make every word, every action count and to depict a rich and complex life in a few paragraphs. What are the key moments of your character’s past? How do these moments influence or inform their current realization?

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