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Next week we’re trying something a little different over here at Wordia headquarters. We’re partnering with leading literature website, East of the Web on an exciting online project that explores the connections between words through story and video.

We’re looking for very short flash fiction stories, no longer than 500 words, that incorporate the following seven words:

REFUSE

CASE

LIGHT

WOUND

FAST

ROW

NOTE

Each short story should centre on ONE of these words – e.g. if you choose ‘note’, the story might be about a note that is written by one of the characters.

But as an extra, intriguing twist, ALL SIX of the other words should be used in some form, somewhere in rest of the text – e.g. the story about the note must also include the words: refuse, case, light, wound, fast and row, in some form (i.e. refused or fasting are acceptable).

Your submission can be any genre or style – in fact, we’re looking for interesting uses of the words!

Successful pieces will be featured at East of the Web and Wordia. The Wordia team have asked seven leading authors to debate and explore the meaning of one of these words, published as Word of the Day over ‘Flash Fiction Week’!

Wordia is about shared perspectives of language, so why not explore and add your own take on what one of these words means? We looking forward to seeing the results (and perspectives!)