Novel Kicks Fiction Friday

Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: The Wrong Name

Welcome to Fiction Friday, our weekly flash fiction challenge.

Here’s how it works:

Set a timer for five minutes and start writing

Keep going for as long as you can once the timer goes off

No editing allowed—raw writing only

When you’re finished, feel free to share in the comments (but there’s no pressure.) 

 

Today’s prompt: The Wrong Name.
 

Every morning, a woman visits the same little café on her way to work. She orders the same coffee, sits at the same table and exchanges a few words with the owner.

One Tuesday, the owner greets her by a different name.

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Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: The Name on the Ticket

Welcome to Fiction Friday, our weekly flash fiction challenge.

Here’s how it works:

Set a timer for five minutes and start writing

Keep going for as long as you can once the timer goes off

No editing allowed—raw writing only

When you’re finished, feel free to share in the comments (but there’s no pressure.) 

 

Today’s prompt: The Name on the Ticket

 

Your character arrives at a train station and buys a ticket for the next train. Everything seems ordinary until the ticket prints.

The destination is correct. The time is correct.

But underneath the passenger’s name is a handwritten message:

 

“Whatever happens, don’t get off at the third stop.”

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Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: The Familiar Stranger

Welcome to Fiction Friday, our weekly flash fiction challenge.

Here’s how it works:

Set a timer for five minutes and start writing

Keep going for as long as you can once the timer goes off

No editing allowed—raw writing only

When you’re finished, feel free to share in the comments (but there’s no pressure.) 

 

Today’s prompt – The Familiar Stranger.

 

Your character is at a crowded coffee shop, grocery store, or public place when someone stops and talks to them like they have known them for years.

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Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: The Door Under The Sea

Welcome to Fiction Friday, our weekly flash fiction challenge.

Here’s how it works:

Set a timer for five minutes and start writing

Keep going for as long as you can once the timer goes off

No editing allowed—raw writing only

When you’re finished, feel free to share in the comments (but there’s no pressure.) 

 

Today’s prompt: The Door Under The Sea – 

 

A lighthouse keeper discovers a door beneath the sea that opens only when someone, somewhere, forgets their own name. Each time the door appears, the keeper hears their own voice calling from the other side—but the voice is always speaking a name they do not recognize.

For years, the keeper has recorded disappearances in a salt-stained ledger: sailors who abandoned their lives, children who stopped answering to their names, old people who woke without memories of who they were. Then, one storm-lashed night, the door opens beneath the lighthouse itself.

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Novel Kicks Fiction Friday: The Shadows

Welcome to Fiction Friday, our weekly flash fiction challenge.

Here’s how it works:

Set a timer for five minutes and start writing

Keep going for as long as you can once the timer goes off

No editing allowed—raw writing only

When you’re finished, feel free to share in the comments (but there’s no pressure.) 

 

Today’s prompt: The Shadows.

 

At sunrise, every shadow in the city points toward the same locked door.

By noon, people have gathered around it, carrying keys they do not remember owning.

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