The Short of It
Beginner’s Guide to Microfiction
What it is, how to write it, and where to publish it
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4 min readNov 17, 2020
Microfiction is the shortest of short stories. The flashiest (in that it goes by in a flash) of flash fiction. Its limits are telling a story in the most limited number of words (or characters, in the case of Twitter fiction) as possible.