Flash Fiction

Flash fiction is a style of fictional literature or 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 three hundred words, while others consider stories as long as a thousand words to be flash fiction.

In one particular format, established by Steve Moss, editor of San Luis Obispo New Times, the requirement is 55 words; no more and no fewer. Another, unspecified but frequently held, requirement is that the title may be no more than seven words. Hyphens do not alter the word-count (
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What if the universe is expanding because when you die, or anyone or anything dies, they become a star?
Doworth Howard, Thick, Thin, What The Dragon Let In: Stories, Rhymes, and Reveries

A sister dovetails into a sister. Under steady state conditions, a sister can’t pinpoint the endpoint between her brain and her sister’s: a flow of speech runs in a loop.
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