2025 February Flash Fiction Challenge: Day 28

Wow, the last day of the challenge is upon us! How are you feeling? Are you tired? Energized? All of it at once? Trust me, I understand! Hopefully you learned something about yourself and your writing this month, whether you were diligent and wrote every day, only wrote one or two stories, or fell somewhere in the middle.

I’ve loved spending this month with you! If you’re interested in poetry, be sure to come back for Senior Editor Robert Lee Brewer’s April Poem-A-Day challenge starting April 1!

In honor of our collective passion for the written word, today’s prompt is to write about passion.

(Note: If your story gets flagged for review, be patient—we will be releasing comments every few hours throughout the weekdays of this challenge. Our system randomly flags comments for review, so just sit tight and wait for us to set it free! If you run into any other 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 passion:

Becky, Age 56

It wasn’t that she disliked the younger girls, it’s just that scrapbooking was more than a casual hobby. It was a craft, something you studied and got better at. She watched them snicker over fancy coffee—not one single layout completed—shook her head.

Their books would never be treasured.