[flash fik-shuhn ] n. Fiction of extreme brevity. There is no widely accepted definition of the length of the category. Some self-described markets for flash fiction impose caps as low as 300, while others consider stories as long as 1000 words to be flash fiction. The term "flash fiction" may have originated from a 1992 anthology of the same name. As the editors said in their introduction, their definition of a "flash fiction" was a story that would fit on two facing pages of a typical digest-sized literary magazine, or about 750 words.
The form has roots going back to "Aesop's Fables," and practitioners have included Bolesław Prus, Anton Chekhov, O. Henry, Franz Kafka, H.P.Lovecraft, Ernest Hemingway, Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Fredric Brown and Lydia Davis.
Earth Angel
Hippy Chicks
I Taught Her Well
Pick Me Up On Your Way Down
The Longest Walk Of The Day
Cleaning Up The Game
The Lady In Waiting
Drama's Wet Dream: A Modern Pulp
Little Demon Girl
Valka
The Vanishing Clown
Athena
Thirteen Men
Decisions, Decisons
The Calm Before The Storm
The Bigger Your Buckle The Better
Ice Cream On Hot Summer Nights
The Ballad of Donna Lethal
Why I Hate Hot Dogs
Barbie's Milk Bubbles
Bossa Nova Bellhop
Uncle Rocco
The Rockabilly Kittens
Further On Up The Road
Delta Dawn
She Wore Man's Pants
An Afternoon With The Sisters Swerve
Mildred & Mabel: On the Make
Bubbles McCoy: Woman of Ill Repute
The Beach Girl (2.0)
Frozen in the Kingdom (2.0)
Caught in The Middle (2.0)
His Leather Warning (2.0)
The Horny Elf
The Movie Mogul
Perfect Christmas
The Writer's Dilemma
Illuminati At The Airport
I Owe My Soul to The Company Store
Red Cloud At Sundown
Surprise At The County Fair
Laffing Sal
The Sad Bride
Something Brand New
Who Shot Sam?
Tickling Those Ivories
Divorce Your Loved One With Dignity
Shade
The First Wrist
Tears From The Second Line
Seven Meals From Anarchy
Carny Freaks: Pip and Flip
Pretty Girls Try The Hardest
Twenty Bucks
Her First Night
Goddess Or Guttersnipe?
Hellhound On His Trail
Albino Village
The Death of a Living Mug Shot
Peeping Tom's Paradise
The Killer in Me
Agent Orange
A Gossip Nation
The Writer And The Reader
A Box Full Of Watches
Continental Drift
A Puma In Search Of Her Cub
That Smug Smile
A Rubber Ducky's Lament
A Stripper's Creed
Gentleman's Call
Earth Angel
Hippy Chicks
I Taught Her Well
Pick Me Up On Your Way Down
The Longest Walk Of The Day
Cleaning Up The Game
The Lady In Waiting
Drama's Wet Dream: A Modern Pulp
Little Demon Girl
Valka
The Vanishing Clown
Athena
Thirteen Men
Decisions, Decisons
The Calm Before The Storm
The Bigger Your Buckle The Better
Ice Cream On Hot Summer Nights
The Ballad of Donna Lethal
Why I Hate Hot Dogs
Barbie's Milk Bubbles
Bossa Nova Bellhop
Uncle Rocco
The Rockabilly Kittens
Further On Up The Road
Delta Dawn
She Wore Man's Pants
An Afternoon With The Sisters Swerve
Mildred & Mabel: On the Make
Bubbles McCoy: Woman of Ill Repute
The Beach Girl (2.0)
Frozen in the Kingdom (2.0)
Caught in The Middle (2.0)
His Leather Warning (2.0)
The Horny Elf
The Movie Mogul
Perfect Christmas
The Writer's Dilemma
Illuminati At The Airport
I Owe My Soul to The Company Store
Red Cloud At Sundown
Surprise At The County Fair
Laffing Sal
The Sad Bride
Something Brand New
Who Shot Sam?
Tickling Those Ivories
Divorce Your Loved One With Dignity
Shade
The First Wrist
Tears From The Second Line
Seven Meals From Anarchy
Carny Freaks: Pip and Flip
Pretty Girls Try The Hardest
Twenty Bucks
Her First Night
Goddess Or Guttersnipe?
Hellhound On His Trail
Albino Village
The Death of a Living Mug Shot
Peeping Tom's Paradise
The Killer in Me
Agent Orange
A Gossip Nation
The Writer And The Reader
A Box Full Of Watches
Continental Drift
A Puma In Search Of Her Cub
That Smug Smile
A Rubber Ducky's Lament
A Stripper's Creed
Gentleman's Call
The Suitcase Girl
The Fan
The Beast Within
Frozen In The Kingdom
Waiting For Their Husbands (*Hopper painting)
The Beach Girl
The Last Moments of Papa H
The Usherette (*Hopper painting)
Mayor of Nowhere
Would-Be Widow (*Hopper painting)
The Right Place At The Right Time
When Cool Was King
Lockwood At The Pool
When Pigs Fly
Babies In Training
The Ballad of Sam Sales And His Convention Cupcake
She Didn't Own My Eyes
The Last Drunken Party
Shadowbox Memories
Penny Fountain
Who Gets The Dog?
The Crazy Smile