Flash Fiction

[Meadow337]

Flash fiction is a style of fictional literature or fiction of extreme brevity. There is no widely accepted definition of the length of the category. Some self-described markets for flash fiction impose caps as low as three hundred words, while others consider stories as long as a thousand words to be flash fiction.

An excellent article on the subject + a whole bunch of links to publishers:

http://www.squidoo.com/flash-fiction-writing

 

[Sparhawk]

This sounds really cool, who would've thought that it was such a big genre.

 

[Meadow337]

I like the idea of being brief. Forces you to choose your words carefully. Being a minimalist anyway in how I write, it really appeals to me. Extreme minimalism ... kind of like extreme sports for writers