This is the third story in this summer’s online Flash Fiction series. You can read the entire series, and our Flash Fiction stories from previous years, here. We ...

and our Flash Fiction stories from 2017 and 2018, here. I answered that I’d been visited by three ghosts. Was it three? The first ghost showed up in the form of a Bernese mountain dog.

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 ...

Flash fiction – very short, bite-sized stories – has become the favourite form of many writers. It's succinct, punchy and effective – perfect for the online reader and perfectly in synch ...

For our 2010 flash fiction competition, we asked for very short stories about worlds in which scientific theories we’ve long since dismissed turned out to be true after all. “I really enjoyed ...

Officials say multiple dogs have died from flash flooding at a doggy daycare in Washington, DC. DC Fire and Rescue were called to Rhode Island Avenue after severe storms produced flash flooding.

Ben Odgren, the children’s librarian at the Rockport Public Library, wrote this year’s winning entry in the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance annual Crime Wave Flash Fiction contest.

Readers of fiction are obsessed with length. The novel is the thing. Short stories will do when they are masterful (O’Connor, Ó Faoláin, Lavin). But flash fiction? Who needs it? Lots of ...

WASHINGTON — If D.C. is a dog city, then a crowd of dozens Thursday ... that drowned inside a District Dogs daycare Monday when a flash flood overwhelmed the front wall. "Today actually would ...

Most recently, Treadwell coauthored “A Flash Fiction Exchange Between Methuselah and the Maiden,” with Bowdoin College senior Anneka Williams. The book is a collection of “60 short stories ...