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You Listened to It, Now Time to Write It

Dating in the friend circle: pure drama, chaos, and Olympic-level bad decisions. You show up to a group dinner with one partner, and three pitchers of beer later you’re leaving with your best friend’s main squeeze.

Send it in to us – if it’s short, sharp, and under 600 words, we might just read it out on the podcast (bonus points if you make us wince and laugh in the same paragraph).

Prompt 1: The Drink That Changed Everything

Write the scene where two friends finally stop pretending they don’t have chemistry. Keep it under 600 words (yes, even Shakespeare would’ve had to cut his friend-group drama down for us). Explore the moment when the “innocent” comment lands like a bomb. Is it thrilling? Horrifying? Do they picture the rest of the group’s collective meltdown – or start drafting the group chat announcement in their heads? The tension should feel both absurd and real, balanced somewhere between romance novel swoon and soap opera parody.

Fun Thought: Nothing says “we value our friendships” like blowing them up for the sake of one tequila-fueled spark.

Prompt 2: Memoir of a Friend Group Debacle

Every friend group has that story. You know the one: the forbidden crush, the ill-timed kiss, or the romance that makes everyone else start trading passive-aggressive comments like Pokémon cards. The story that, years later, you either laugh about – or still need therapy for.

Write this like a memoir: first-person, dripping with hindsight and just a touch of shame. Capture the moment when what should’ve been harmless fun spiraled into full-blown chaos. Maybe your crush actually turned into a relationship and suddenly everyone else in the group got weird about it. Maybe it was one disastrous night that set off weeks of awkward silence and whispered commentary. Whatever the case, lean into the absurdity of how fragile the ecosystem of a “tight-knit” friend group really is.

Fun Thought: If your memoir doesn’t include at least one passive-aggressive text thread, was it even a friend group romance debacle?