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.

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 ...

This is no different in stories of science fiction, fantasy and horror, except for the fact that when writers aren’t tied down to a sense of reality dogs can start to do amazing things.

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 ...