Flash Fiction

The standard definition of "flash fiction" is a piece that includes all the major features of a story, including protagonist (and sometimes other characters), setting, and a conflict with some sort of resolution achieved during a defined story arc. What sets the flash fiction piece apart from other shorts stories is its "extreme brevity." Though there is no set maximum number of words, most modern editors and writers put the cap somewhere between 300 and 500 words. Some impose a limit of 1,000 words, but I don't that's enough of a challenge.

Most of the stories in here were originally written for the "Daily Flash Fiction Challenge"  which has a limit of 300 words per entry. I edit them from time to time to flesh out the stories a bit more, but I'm putting a stern cap at 400 words. If you can't tell a story concisely, well . . . you're J. R. R. Tolkien. And I am not he.