Want to learn how to write flash fiction stories? Champion the short-short story by reading our analysis of the flash fiction form.
To put it simply, flash fiction are stories that are extremely brief and small. They are also known as micro fiction, short shorts, post card fiction etc. Ernest Hemingway once famously bet that one could write a story in just six words. Consider the following ‘story’ which won a flash...
A flash fiction story—sometimes called a short short or nanofiction—is one that has a complete plot in under 1,500 words. Some flash fiction pieces consist of as few as five or six words. But no matter how short, flash fiction stories still contain the main elements of a plot. There...
Theme: Speculative fiction, science fiction, fantasy or horror written by African writers Will This Be A Problem?: The Magazine is open for submissions until March 16th 2025. While we occasionally put out submission calls for specific projects, such as our anthologies and magazines, which may hav...
March 3, 2021/Leave a comment Geoffrey Scott was from a younger generation than the performers I normally write about, but his handsome presence was ubiquitous during my 1980s childhood. FromDynastytoThe Love Boat,Night Court, andBattle of the Network Stars, his charisma and acting ability lit...
Posted inTanim and Daren|Taggedfiction,flash fiction,LGBT,prose,queer,suicide,writing|Leave a reply #2722 Posted onSeptember 6, 2024 Reply Most of the time you’re killing each other, and it’s very tragic and protracted and full of gothic longing, etcetera etcetera, but oh, when you kil...
Flash Fiction: Write a story on any topic that uses 150 words. Cash prize for the winning entry. Future Flash Fiction: Write a flash fiction story on any topic. But it must take place in the future. Cash Prize! Newbie Flash Fiction: For our New Arrival contest we challenge you to writ...
Write a flash fiction story that uses 75 words. That is the challenge of this contest. Write a story (on any topic) using exactly 75 words. The title does not count towards the word count. Online word processor is an estimate only. We recommend the use of a computer word processor to...
Each story has a maximum of 300 words and is based on a daily prompt, which I've included in the introduction for each story. If you like writing, see what you can come up with, using the same prompts! Or visit Daily Flash Fiction Challenge for more prompts and contest entries. Magic...
Flash Fiction stories are tales of a thousand words or less. In this collection you, the reader, are offered 10 short tales of horror and creeping terror.Josh Hilden