2026 February Flash Fiction Challenge: Day 28
Write a piece of flash fiction each day of February with the February Flash Fiction Challenge. Today’s prompt is to write about an aftermath.
Wow, the last day of the challenge is upon us! How are you feeling? Are you tired? Energized? All of it at once? Trust me, I understand! Hopefully you learned something about yourself and your writing this month, whether you were diligent and wrote every day, only wrote one or two stories, or fell somewhere in the middle.
Thank you for making this another amazing year of creating as a community. I hope to see some of you in the comments of the Tuesday story prompts here on WritersDigest.com this year!
I've loved spending this month with you! If you're interested in poetry, be sure to come back for Senior Editor Robert Lee Brewer's April Poem-A-Day challenge starting April 1!
Today's prompt is to write about an aftermath.
(Note: If your story gets flagged for review, be patient—we will be releasing comments every few hours throughout the weekdays of this challenge. Our system randomly flags comments for review, so just sit tight and wait for us to set it free! If you run into any other issues with posting your story, please just send me an e-mail at mrichard@aimmedia.com with the subject line: Flash Fiction Challenge Commenting Issue.)
Here’s my attempt at a story about an aftermath:
How It Ends
They lay side by side, staring at the shadows on the hotel room ceiling.
“We can’t do this again.”
Key let out a slow breath, resisting the temptation to turn their head and look at Lyla’s profile.
Eventually, they find the strength to say, evenly, “If that’s what you want.”
