Flash!Mob OCT25: NOTHING EVER HAPPENS

The FLASH!MOB prompt for October 2025 is NOTHING EVER HAPPENS

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

What if...

• you live in a town where there's a drizzly mizzly grey rain every day, everyone lives their lives, and nothing ever happens. Then one morning, the sky is clear and a brilliant blue...
• nothing ever happens in your ordinary village, in your ordinary life, and one day you wish for more...
• everyone in the quiet seaside town insists that nothing ever happens there, but one day a visitor ventures into an alley past a sign that says 'No Entry'...
• you inherit an old house and clearing it out you find a journal that starts: Everyone thinks that nothing ever happens here, but no one looks beyond the mirror...
• the ruling classes are determined to play the line that nothing ever happens... but things are happening and people are beginning to talk...

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

Deadline: 30th October 2025

Please email stories to: submissions@harveyduckman.com with the subject line NOTHING 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, all proceeds to the Harvey project for future stuff...).

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