Severe flooding has hit parts of western Ukraine after torrential rains caused rivers to overflow in Lviv and across 11 local communities, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service (SES) reported on July 11.

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Bengaluru-based writer Shalaka Kulkarni’s new self-published collection of flash fiction, Tadow (Notion Press), explores life ...

Conspiracy theories tend to thrive in the wake of natural disasters like the Texas floods. Here's what to look out for.

The idea that DC Comics writers were potentially influenced by the backlash against them to create the character of Thawne ...

Jun. 6—Area authors as well as wanna-be authors have a chance to write flash fiction for publication and an opportunity to appear on this year's Austin ArtWorks Festival Author Stage. A flash ...

The year’s best speculative fiction includes a fantasy novel by Kelly Link, alien epics and promising starts to series.

Novelist Venita Blackburn breaks down her "flash fiction" favorites, the L.A. Public Library becomes a publisher — and more in our Book Club newsletter.

Sixteen years after the series last appeared in our pages, we sent cocktail napkins to ten writers we love. Here are the short works of fiction they wrote on them.

Flash fiction and rhythm games are both beholden to brevity. In the former’s case, complicated ideas are cut down to be conveyed with only the most necessary word economy. In the latter’s ...