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He called. She answered. He was her only sibling. He’d paid to have someone deliver her citrus so that she could avoid scurvy ...
Israeli writer Etgar Keret, whose latest short story collection, Suddenly, a Knock at the Door, is out today, is masterful at a genre—flash fiction—that has little to recommend it. Defined as ...
What is flash fiction? Exact definitions vary, but all agree it's short--anywhere from a single sentence (like this one attributed to Hemingway: "For sale: baby shoes, never worn.") to 1,500 words ...
Novelist Venita Blackburn breaks down her "flash fiction" favorites, the L.A. Public Library becomes a publisher — and more in our Book Club newsletter.
Bengaluru-based writer Shalaka Kulkarni’s new self-published collection of flash fiction, Tadow (Notion Press), explores life ...
Weike Wang writes a flash-fiction story about a group of untenured professors whose faculty housing, during a renovation, begins to flood.
Flash fiction is a complete short story that's usually between just 300 and 1,000 words. Submissions for "Flash Fiction Fridays" cannot be longer than 500 words.
Many of the stories he wrote qualified as "flash fiction, usually defined as a piece of writing less than 1,000 words long. His story “Placebo” is only two sentences and 25 words long.
Updated on: 10 July,2025 09:28 AM IST | Mumbai Nandini Varma | [email protected] ...
The debut novel 'Dead in Long Beach, California,' is a sharp, dazzling turn for Compton-raised author Venita Blackburn, who made her name with lightning-fast fiction.
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