2024 February Flash Fiction Challenge: Day 29

It’s our last day of this challenge, and whether you joined in every day or just wrote a single story, I’m so happy to have had this time writing with all of you!

If you’re feeling a little glum that this challenge is coming to a close, I want to reassure you that there’s another way to enjoy the WD writing community here on the site! Every Tuesday, I post a prompt and an accompanying image. Like this one!

Photo by Scott Lord on Unsplash

For today’s prompt, write a story about stars.

Remember: These prompts are just starting points; you have the freedom to go wherever your flash of inspiration takes you.

(Note: If you run into any 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 the stars:

He’d been listening for it for almost all of his adult life, but the astronomer was still shocked when he heard it—garbled, growling, but unmistakably a voice speaking from somewhere beyond his imagination.