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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...
One of the most famous examples of microfiction is a six-word story. People often attribute the following story to Ernest Hemingway, although some sources give Arthur C. Clarke credit. The tale is that someone bet Hemingway he couldn’t write an entire story in just six words. For sale: ...
Or visit Daily Flash Fiction Challenge for more prompts and contest entries. Magic Touch Prompt: Write a story that includes the words motel, billboard, and map. From my hotel room window, I see an oversized billboard with his face on it: Jason, the Great Magician. I absent-mindedly ...
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...
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
6-Word Stories One of the most famous examples of flash fiction is the "baby shoes" six-word story: "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." The story is often misattributed toErnest Hemingway, but Garson O'Toole atQuote Investigatorhas done extensive work to trace its true origin. ...
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...
After all, flash fiction requires writers to effectively cramming a whole narrative into 1,500 words or less. But when writers rise to this challenge, the results can be exquisite. This post is dedicated to those dazzling flash fiction examples. We'll cover works by the masters of the ...
Flash Fiction The Truth about Lisbon (Final Part) PART 6 – AIRPORT (ENCORE) And they say that dead men don’t tell lies. I told you to take my tale with a grain of salt. Though one truth remains. I did kill a man in Lisbon. Only thing is: that man wasn’t Rodolfo. It was ...