The Short Of It
Beginner’s Guide to Flash Fiction
How to conceptualize, write, and edit in this booming market
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7 min readJan 26, 2021
Flash fiction, sometimes also known as short shorts, is a subgenre of short stories. They can be of any genre — literary, sci-fi, romance, whatever — but they have to be short. In other words, done in a flash. They are a subgenre solely defined by length.
