This year’s Flash Fiction Writing Contest, as part of Daniel Boone’s Regional Library’s One Read Program, asked participants to write a climate fiction story in 250 words or less inspired by author ...

The Current, in case you haven’t noticed, has changed its online content format slightly. Hence the delay in Flash Fiction. As of now, I’ll be publishing one piece a month. But keep sending your work ...

Haruki Murakami’s Lonely Men Jess Zimmerman | The New Republic “It’s only when surrounded by light surrealism that the characteristic Murakami detachment can achieve its ambition. When his writing is ...

Cynthia J. Sylvester's book "The Half-White Album" is a collection of her short stories, flash fiction and poetry. The writing is lively, thoughtful and inventive. Sylvester, an Albuquerque resident, ...

This is the third story in this summer’s online Flash Fiction series. You can read the entire series, and our Flash Fiction stories from previous years, here. At ...

Derby Book Festival has launched its Flash Fiction Writing Competition, open to adults and children, with entrants invited to submit a story or poem of up to 50 words on the subject of ‘Light’. The ...

Accessible enough for pleasure reading but instructive enough for the classroom, this volume brings together brief essays by 25 writers known for their talent in flash fiction, aka the ""short short ...

Note from Blast Team - This story was posted on the Blast Writing message boards. It was uploaded by Blast on behalf of Kim. Guess which part of the '12 Days of Christmas' song it represents! You can ...

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This is the first story in this summer’s online Flash Fiction series. You can read the entire series, and our Flash Fiction stories from previous years, here. I saw ...

What is flash fiction? Exact definitions vary, but all agree it's short--anywhere from a single sentence (like this one attributed to Hemingway: "For sale: baby shoes, never worn.") to 1,500 ...