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Category: Micro fiction
Ultra short stories; sawn-off tales; micro fiction; stories in your pocket
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Award-winning author, Amber Byers, explains how you can tell a compelling story that impacts the reader in 100 words or less…
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Original flash fiction by Jane Snyder
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Receipts are very obviously very wrong. Anyone – man or woman – after a day’s Christmas shopping can see this. The hardware shop you go into to buy your dad that new pair of gardening gloves has a stupid bit of token paper about one inch square, whereas when you go to the stereo shop…
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If you’ve checked out our list of writing competitions and want to try your hand at something else, why not explore the world of Flash Fiction websites and magazines? Whether you want to call it micro-fiction, sudden fiction, smokelong lit, short-shorts or flash fiction, writing stories under 1000 words requires dedication, skill and applying new…
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* I’ve never been much of one for books. You might think that odd, what with me being a professor of literature and all, but, then, professors of literature generally are quite odd. And everybody has to have their niche; their little cultivated patch of oddness. It’s part of the job. * …
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He wanted to kill someone. Not anyone in particular, or for any particular reason – he just wanted to see what it felt like. He didn’t want to get caught, though. He’d be careful. He bought a high-powered collapsible rifle with a silencer from a bloke’s mate’s friend of a pal, and found an old…
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When I were a lad, we used to keep chickens. One Easter they hatched a brood of chicks – all little yellow fluffy things, and one black one, who was immediately and clearly the runt. I went to feed the chicks one day, and replinished their water. They raced towards the plastic dish that…
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