Announcing . 6-Word . Flash Fiction . Contest! You will notice that there are 6 ’shorts ‘altogether, and that is exactly how many words your story should be! It’s not as crazy as it sounds. After all Ernest Hemingway proved it is possible to create
Sudden fiction Monday through Wednesday. Long stories from known writers on Thursdays. Stories of any length from unknown writers on Fridays. For a moment the two men looked at each other nakedly. Then Morton turned his back on the man and said quietly
Other names for it include short-short stories, sudden, postcard, minute, furious, fast, quick, skinny, and micro fiction. In France such works are called nouvelles. In China this type of writing has several interesting names: little short story, pocket-s
I am a proponent and devotee of the genre of short-short fiction, becoming popularly known as, "Sudden Fiction." I find this approach to short fiction a great exercise for all serious fiction writers. The compact, energized nature of sudden fiction forces
microfiction.org is a small, inappropriately-named collection of random generators of stuff. 'stuff' currently and cuddled with at night by tal yarkoni. generators make great cuddlers. go on. try one. microfiction.org is a labor of love. feel free to drop
"Well, no," replied the botanist. "These societies lack language, art, learning, consciousness, feeling; in a word — they lack souls and hearts, which we human beings possess. Here everything happens blindly, mechanically, without sympathies and without