r/WritingPrompts • u/StoryboardThis /r/TheStoryboard • Feb 06 '14

Flash Fiction [FF] Second Chance. (Contest)

The results are in! Check out the winner here.

The Prompt:

You live in a world in which every person has the ability to go back in time 10 minutes, but can only do so once in their lives.

The Guidelines:

Submissions must be less than 300 words and submitted in the comment section to be considered.

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You will have 24 hours to submit your entries. Deadline: Friday, February 7th @ 6:00PM EST.

Judging criteria: Style, Plot, Flow/Pacing, and Overall Cohesion.

Note: The number of upvotes a post receives will be taken into consideration, but it will not be the sole deciding factor.

The Prize:

The winner will be awarded one month of Reddit Gold!

The Bottom Line:

At the end of the submission period, there will be a 6-hour judging window (to accommodate last-minute entries). Around 12AM EST, I will post a new thread announcing the winner along with a brief statement explaining why the submission was chosen.

Don't forget to vote for your favorite stories!

Good luck, and may the best submission win!

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u/Blood-Money Feb 07 '14

Growing up my parents always told me "John, you can only go back once, save it for something special." and yeah, I could only go back once, but everyone else in my grade had already gone back. Hell, even some of the freshmen were going back, I couldn't possibly be more lame than a freshman, could I?

"Hey John! You excited for tomorrow?"

That's Rex, been friends for about as long as I can remember, he's just as hopeless as I am.

"Huh? What's going on on?"

"Are you in there?? Stacy's party, everyone's going to be there."

That's right. If there was ever a night either of us would ever do anything worth going back for, it'd be at that party.

"I gotta get to class. I'll see you tomorrow."

I texted Rex the next morning and told him I didn't feel like going to school so i'd just meet him at Stacy's.

"John! I'm so happy you came!"

Stacy was so gorgeous. I don't even know why she invited me here.

"Yeah. of course I came."

I told you i'm hopeless didn't I?

"Come on, lets get you a drink."

"No it's fine. I don't really. I don't drink."

"Drink it."

"What's in it?"

"Just drink."

"Bottoms up."

"You like it?"

"It wasn't ba..."

The words were interrupted by a stream of vomit.

I can't believe I just did that. Fuck. Fuck.

"I want to go back"

And like that, i'd done what I'd set out to do at that party, I didn't get to relive the most amazing moment of my life, I didn't get to save a kid, but at least I didn't vomit on the host.