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Flash Fiction Prompt: The Haunted Apartment.

A new weekly writing prompt for BookStack.

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May 31, 2025
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Many readers are writers. And many of you who subscribe to BookStack are both. So to cater to that, I figured it’d be fun to experiment with writing prompts here. I may make little contests and stuff out of these in the future. However, for now these are just for fun.

If you’ve followed my Poetry Prompt Weekly’s on my personal blog, you’re already familiar with how I structure these. Introduce the Prompt > Weekly Shoutouts > Poll to inspire next week’s prompt.

Pretty straightforward right? The only difference between these ones and those is I won’t be writing mine ahead of time. So we’re all on the playing field this time around.

Before we start, there’s one last thing I should mention. I’ll be opening a thread in our subscriber chat where you can link your responses. I’ll be reading through each and leaving feedback, but only up to five will be selected for shout-outs in next week’s post.

Okay, ready? Let’s dive into this week’s prompt.

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A friend invites you over to an apartment he bought, raving about the grandness and low rent. Once you visit, you discover that it’s actually completely haunted. Your friend has no idea.

To start this whole prompt thing off, I pulled this one from Writing Prompts on Tumblr. For this prompt challenge please keep your prompts under 1500 words.

And if you can turn this into a poem, I welcome it full-heartedly. I want to see what you all can come up with.

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The Weekly Flash Fiction Prompt Poll.

Since this our first prompt we unfortunately don’t have any prompt responses to shout-out. We’ll be doing those next week though, so we’re going to move onto our weekly poll.

These polls will help inspire the next writing prompt so make sure to choose wisely. Sometimes these will be fun and wacky, and other times they’ll be more intriguing and interesting.

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Wendy Cockcroft
Jun 1

I can't get into your chat for some reason. Here's my fic: https://open.substack.com/pub/wendycockcroft/p/apartment-127?r=7vbsc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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Jun 3

https://open.substack.com/pub/mebrady/p/low-rent-blues?r=tox79&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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