How to submit your microfiction and flash fiction to Sudden Flash

When is a story ready to send out? Should we wait until it's perfect? How can we tell? In my article today I draw from my own experience as well as that of Kris Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith.

The beauty of writing flash fiction is how much you can play around with it. Here are ten tips from author Maria Haskins.

The quick report of a pistol rang through the quiet autumn night.

The lady circus rider rides around and around the ring.

She looked like someone had just died, and it turned out someone had just died.

We're all out of bed and on our feet.

Kelsey had been ready to end things with Travis.

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How to submit your microfiction and flash fiction to Sudden Flash

The view from the World Trade Towers was like a postcard.

Venture capitalism

Would he ever solve the case?

Just let the bot do it.

This wasn't my finest hour.

Anthropic is trying to “destructively scan all the books in the world.” How worried should we be?

The difference bears repeating

How to submit your microfiction and flash fiction to Sudden Flash

Once I answered a help-wanted ad for a network engineer.

Lady Octopus was very special.

How to submit your microfiction and flash fiction to Sudden Flash

I’m a sucker for a woman who laughs at my jokes.

“I’m fine,” she said.

How to submit your microfiction and flash fiction to Sudden Flash

The words threw and through are homophones—they have the exact same pronunciation. But they’re used very differently. In this article, we’ll explain the differences between threw and through, cover ho...

Two commonly misused adjectives are worse and worst. Because these words look and sound similar, it can be tough to differentiate between them—especially since they…

How to submit your microfiction and flash fiction to Sudden Flash

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Learn the correct form of these similar-sounding phrases, and how to use it.

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The phrase "lo and behold" is often misspelled as "low and behold." But what does it mean? And how can you avoid errors in your writing? Let us explain.

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Satisfying Your Appetite For Yummy Bites of Micro Fiction

He’d appeared in movies before, but this was the big one.

His lawyer says it was consensual