what is flash fiction

Flash fiction, also known as micro-fiction or short-short stories, is a form of concise storytelling that captures a complete narrative in a limited word count. Typically, flash fiction stories range from just a few words to around 1,000 words, making them perfect for readers seeking quick and immersive literary experiences.

One highly acclaimed author renowned for their flash fiction is Lydia Davis. Davis has mastered the art of crafting impactful and thought-provoking stories within a constrained space. Her award-winning collection, "Can't and Won't," is highly recommended for those interested in exploring the depths of flash fiction.

Another notable writer in the genre is Etgar Keret, an Israeli author known for his surreal and poignant short stories, including some that fall into the flash fiction category. His collection, "Suddenly, a Knock on the Door," offers a delightful and unconventional reading experience.

To dive further into the world of flash fiction, websites like Flash Fiction Online, SmokeLong Quarterly, and 101 Words are excellent resources. These platforms showcase a vast array of flash fiction pieces from talented writers around the globe, ensuring a diverse range of styles and themes.

For aspiring flash fiction writers, getting involved in the vibrant online flash fiction community can be enriching. Platforms such as Micro Fiction Monday Magazine and the Flash Fiction subreddit provide spaces to share, critique, and engage with fellow writers. Participating in flash fiction writing challenges, such as the popular Friday Flash, can also help to hone one's skills and build a supportive network.

In conclusion, flash fiction offers a captivating literary experience in a compact form. With authors like Lydia Davis and Etgar Keret, combined with numerous online resources and communities, exploring this genre is both accessible and rewarding. So, whether you're a reader craving quick but impactful stories or an aspiring writer looking to experiment with brevity, flash fiction has much to offer for your literary journey.
Master, your disciple is rebelling. Fiction
Master, your disciple is rebelling.

The criteria for accepting disciples include being hardworking, resilient, academically accomplished. As for Haoyuan, his criteria include being able to make delicious fish soup and using magic fire to enhance its flavor. Of course, it would be even better if the disciple is good-looking, emotionally intelligent, and occasionally able to help him fend off admirers. So, he accepted a disciple who is lazy, can make fish soup, exceptionally beautiful, and capable of attracting all the females around him. He is extremely impressive, unbeatable by gods and formidable foes alike. The male protagonist is dominant and powerful, willing to kill anyone who tries to steal his disciple. The female protagonist acts cunning and strong, with extraordinary combat abilities, both are carefree and not into abusing each other. This is a carefree master-disciple novel, similar to the completed "Heartless Master and Talented Disciple". They belong to the series of immortal and martial master

583.49 Million words | 2021-11-21 22:25Update

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Miraculous Hands: Urban Physician Fiction
Miraculous Hands: Urban Physician

With extraordinary medical skills, bones can regenerate flesh. With a pair of iron fists, stars retreat in fear. Walking between power and the god of death, breaking the rules with fists, saving lives as a doctor, dominating the peak, embarking on a path of fiery passion in the city. [And this is just the beginning] (PS: This book has correct values, uh... occasionally deviates. PS: The author guarantees the quality with millions of words from previous works, please rest assured and collect without worries. Absolutely no censorship!) "Wolf Camp" Penguin group:

532.63 Million words | 2021-01-08 20:38Update

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Jia Sidao's Life in the Antique World Fiction
Jia Sidao's Life in the Antique World

A ordinary young man from the lower classes of society, when his left hand suddenly gains a unique sensing ability and he starts to enter the world of collectibles, everything begins to change. Magical gambling stones, exquisite ceramics, and ancient bronze ware are revealed one by one. The descriptions of antiques in the book are for reference only and should not be entirely trusted. Recommendation: If you do not possess Jia Sidao's special ability, please refrain from easily attempting to enter this profession.

166.21 Million words | 2022-10-12 10:41Update

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Rebirth as the Strongest Heiress of the Noble Family Fiction
Rebirth as the Strongest Heiress of the Noble Family

My best friend turned out to be a scheming hypocrite? She stole her boyfriend, took over her marital home, and slept in her marriage bed, thinking she could bully the kind-hearted Song Jinyan? Well, she paid for her bullying with her life! Little did she know, she was reborn into the wealthy Bai family as their young lady. She had the looks, the figure, and a family background that made others green with envy. "There is always someone behind every wrong, and since you stole my boyfriend, I'll make sure you taste the bitterness of losing everything!" She declared with determination, intending to seek revenge on the scumbag. Little did she expect that the young master of a prestigious family would sweep her off her feet. "He doesn't compare to me in looks, physique, or worth. Are you blind, choosing him over me?" The story is guaranteed to keep you hooked. The completed

330.34 Million words | 2020-12-16 23:37Update

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The Silver Age. Fiction
The Silver Age.

"The Silver Age" is the second part of the "Trilogy of Time". It is a lengthy work composed of a series of fictional time and space. This series depicts intellectuals who grew up in this century and lived into the next, reflecting on their predecessors, describing their predecessors, and narrating their own lives throughout the process of spanning centuries. Rather than being a prediction of the future world, it is more of a fable of modern life.

179.80 Million words | 2023-01-23 04:00Update

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Super Weight Loss System Fiction
Super Weight Loss System

Fatty Xia Jingzhe has always wanted to lose weight so that she can eat meat without worry. She unexpectedly obtained an alien system, and the System Lord renamed it the Weight Loss System according to her wishes, releasing a series of weight loss tasks. The system promised Xia Jingzhe that she could earn space by upgrading her weight loss tasks, and from then on, Xia Jingzhe lived a happy life of fighting monsters, leveling up, and enjoying delicious food. But why did the System Lord turn into a little boy? Although he is cute, I don't need a nurturing game! What? The system itself is used by an alien prince to choose a consort? But what does that have to do with me? Connecting to the interstellar world to fight monsters is fine, but marrying an alien is out of the question unless you insert the door backwards~~

102.91 Million words | 2023-01-18 06:24Update

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Unrivaled Fiction
Unrivaled

【Stellar Creation Award Season One Entry】 Yi Chen - A waste young master born into a prominent family with a unique pulse. A mysterious Taoist talisman. A magnificent mansion left behind by an unrivaled powerhouse. Guidance from an ancient demon of ten thousand years... With astonishing determination, he undergoes nine deaths and rebirths, cultivates an indestructible golden body, refines a chaotic divine physique, slays immortals and gods, advances with great momentum, and steps onto the path of the divine...

588.29 Million words | 2023-04-13 08:53Update

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Peach branch bubble Fiction
Peach branch bubble

[End of the Article! Next up, "The Disobedient Nightingale"] In Experiment One, Tao Zhi, a prominent figure, has long dominated the school and the final examination hall. One day, rumors began to circulate that Miss Tao had taken a liking to the legendary school prodigy, Jiang Qihuai, who defeated the top scorer of Fuzhong and is expected to be the provincial champion in the college entrance examination. Tao Zhi gathered information and learned that Jiang Qihuai likes a certain type of girl: obedient and academically excellent, with a score of at least 700 points. Tao Zhi possesses neither of these qualities, so in the name of love, she transformed herself into an emotionless problem-solving machine, studying day and night for half a month. In the end, she scored 350 points on her monthly assessment. After the results were announced, Tao Zhi cornered Jiang Qihuai in a small alley, pretending to negotiate but actually threatening him, saying, "Look, I like you so much. Either you compromise and let me take the exam twice, or..." The young man lazily raised his peach blossom

358.48 Million words | 2020-07-29 17:35Update

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The impassable boundary of the Chu River and Han Dynasty. Fiction
The impassable boundary of the Chu River and Han Dynasty.

They laugh at my solitary sorrow, I laugh at their self-inflicted worries. In the course of time, countless changes occur, A blink of an eye, and mountains have passed. Life is full of resentments born from love, As things change and circumstances shift, love becomes precious. Summary: Destiny brings us together, it is a kind of fate. But fate also decides when it ends. If we have known and loved each other, yet we cannot hold on, Must we part ways and bid farewell? We have loved, but cannot possess, Yet when we no longer love, we are forced to suffer. He is the guardian angel, you are his substitute, But my heart flutters. It's not that I don't love, just that I don't have the right to love. In front of her, how will she choose? ... Crossing the boundaries of life and death, Just to earn a single embrace of love, The most poignant and touching love...

277.59 Million words | 2021-08-01 20:40Update

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Interstellar Husband Fiction
Interstellar Husband

As a superpowered individual who has traveled to the interstellar realm, possessing a spiritual spring space and taking care of various flowers and plants is nothing. I can even create mechas when I have spare time. However, what Tang You desires the most is to rebuild her foul-mouthed little brother. Another thing is, what happened to that supposed cool, ruthless, dominant male god? "Tang You, if you don't show up in front of me within three seconds, your salary will be halved!" Tang You thought it wasn't a big deal to start off with a male identity after crossing over, but being betrayed was simply a black mark in history. In order to obtain a hefty redemption fee, she endures!

573.16 Million words | 2021-08-18 16:00Update

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Unreliable hero. Fiction
Unreliable hero.

An unreliable story with an unreliable writer, an unreliable protagonist, and unreliable updates, but it must be read! Q Group:

136.63 Million words | 2022-11-27 09:39Update

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The Girl with No Past: Mechanical Engineer Fiction
The Girl with No Past: Mechanical Engineer

After transmigrating into a different world, Lu Chen unexpectedly finds herself transformed into a Lolita. Having been a male at heart, she is fortunate enough to be adopted by a church. However, she soon realizes that things are not as they seem, and the gears of fate have already been set in motion.

248.61 Million words | 2022-02-19 09:25Update

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Super House Husband Fiction
Super House Husband

On the first day of my visit, my fiancé unexpectedly pretended to be a female thief and confronted me... The golden phoenix is not someone to be taken lightly, a proud and fearless presence in the bustling city.

317.79 Million words | 2021-03-04 20:22Update

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Entrepreneurship Notes in the Republican Era Fiction
Entrepreneurship Notes in the Republican Era

She traveled back to the Republican era where her husband was a progressive. They were married due to their parents' arrangement. Consequently, she became the feudal remnants that her husband had to abandon. Feeling the sympathetic gazes from those around her, all she could do was laugh.

324.63 Million words | 2021-07-11 21:30Update

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Demon Bodyguard Fiction
Demon Bodyguard

Lai Dabing, a small bodyguard in the bustling metropolis! Terrorist organizations see him as a demon even more ruthless than a devil, while the entertainment industry describes him as a man more handsome than an angel. The martial arts world considers him a genius who defies all odds, and the military sees him as a life-reaping machine more dangerous than a nuclear bomb... One...

287.82 Million words | 2022-05-13 22:23Update

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Please Respect the CEO Fiction
Please Respect the CEO

A full-fledged big bad wolf and a full-fledged little darling. Little darling pounced into the arms of the big bad wolf, triggering an overflow of dog food sprinkling. "You cook the meals, do the dishes, mop the floor, oh, and wash the clothes too!" Little darling counted on their fingers, discussing with utmost seriousness. "Alright, and also feed you." "...Feed me..."

129.27 Million words | 2020-07-06 14:13Update

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The Tycoon Producer in Han Yu Entertainment Fiction
The Tycoon Producer in Han Yu Entertainment

He came to South Korea at the age of twelve and worked as a trainee in Samp&M Company for a year, but did not have the opportunity to debut. A year later, he became a music producer in the Korean film and television industry. He invested in films through music production and acquired companies through funds. He maximized the role of Hallyu, the Korean entertainment industry, in the economy. Of course, on the road to success, there are a few confidantes, most of whom are female protagonists in this book. (A beginner's work, apologies for the poor writing, but I will persist in updating, two updates every day, ooo+)

224.94 Million words | 2021-04-30 16:07Update

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Master of Chinese Entertainment Fiction
Master of Chinese Entertainment

This is an exciting story about traveling through parallel worlds! After reading it, you will only exclaim, "Damn, it's so good!" PS: Welcome to join the Autumn Blade Explosion Group, group number: [group number].

140.52 Million words | 2023-05-30 23:17Update

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[Rebirth] My desk mate has no shame at all. Fiction
[Rebirth] My desk mate has no shame at all.

After experiencing betrayal in her relationship, Su Siying drank herself into a stupor and collapsed in the snow... When she woke up, she found herself in a classroom, facing three invigilators and a Chinese language exam paper for the college entrance examination. Su Siying: ...excuse me?! She thought that starting her new life would mean immediately entering the repeating stage, but the day school started changed everything. Su Siying: ...why is this soft-skinned classmate next to me the same * who stole my boyfriend five years later?! [Feeling hopeless] [Goodbye]

13.14 Million words | 2021-10-25 20:02Update

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The Divine Medicine Priest Fiction
The Divine Medicine Priest

A person will meet two people in their lifetime: one astonishes time, the other warms years. In a world-renowned online game, Fang Xiaoru unexpectedly inherits the legacy of a divine-level pharmacist. She encounters handsome men, refines immortal pills, establishes a sect, dominates the business empire, and realizes her dream of wealth accumulation. Standing at the pinnacle of this game, Fang Xiaoru realizes that it is merely the starting point for cultivation. Greater opportunities and challenges lie ahead. Share: document.getElementById("bdshell_js").src = "http://bdimg.share.baidu.com/static/js/shell_v.js?cdnversion=" + new Date().getHours();

67.79 Million words | 2022-04-14 01:01Update

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