Flash!Mob August26: WHAT GOES AROUND...

The FLASH!MOB prompt for August 2026 is WHAT GOES AROUND...

300 to 1k wobbly words... any genre... any style... go wild with the whatifs!

What if...

• a haunted carousel has a mind of its own...
• an ancient curse revisits a village every ten years...
• waiting for karma to do its thing doesn't seem to be working so you take matters into your own hands...
• the comet is on its way back... what happens this time can't be worse than last time, surely...

Any of these or whatever springs to mind... have fun and happy writing.

Deadline: 28th August 2026

Please email stories to: submissions@harveyduckman.com with the subject line AROUND and please check out our submission guidelines so you know what you're letting yourself in for (original work only, fiction or creative non-fiction welcome, no AI, no fee, no royalties, for fun only, minimal admin and correspondence, all proceeds to the Harvey project for future stuff...).

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If I miss out your story, it's probably an oversight... please give me a shout and I'll fix it asap.

A note on wobbly word counts: 300 words is just a rough guide... anything up to 1k words or so is fine xx