Flash!Mob Jan25: A LINE IN THE SAND
300 wobbly words... fast, funny, smart fiction from Harvey Duckman & The Robinson House Writers

The FLASH!MOB prompt for January 2025 is LINE IN THE SAND.
300 words... any genre... any style... go wild with the whatifs!
What if...
- a mysterious line appears on a beach... anyone crossing it disappears...
- a street artist draws a line across the pavement that gets wider and wider each day...
- a ship exploring the galaxy comes across a line in space marked by a distress signal...
- work colleagues fighting over the kettle draw a line in the sand to resolve the situation... what happens when someone crosses the line?
- you set a personal line in the sand a long time ago... what does it take to cross it now?
Any of these or whatever springs to mind... have fun and happy writing.
Deadline: 31st January 2025
Please email stories to: submissions@harveyduckman.com with the subject line SAND 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 900 is fine xx