Flash Fiction

Complete stories in minutes. War, horror, drama, science fiction, and the quietly supernatural, each one built to land a full punch in a handful of pages.

Whole Stories, Small Doses

Every story here is complete. A beginning, a turn, and an ending that means something, all inside a few minutes of reading. Some are war stories. Some are ghost stories. Some are set a century back and some a century forward. The length is short on purpose. The stories are not small.

Good flash fiction does what a novel does with a fraction of the words: it leaves you carrying something when it ends. Read a few side by side and you will see the same craft working from different angles, the single image that holds a whole life, the last line that rewrites everything before it. Browse the collection below, start anywhere, and find out which ones stay with you.

Islands on the water featuredFlash Fiction

Islands on the Water

On the most beautiful morning he can remember, a young fisherman sees three great vessels with white wings that were not there the night before, and little boats putting out from them toward his shore. He watches the strangers come…

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Where we live featuredFlash Fiction

Where We Live

The first six humans who will never return from the Moon land on a gray plain with no return vehicle on the manifest. The geologist is sent down the ladder first, and what she says when her boot touches the…

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Open the line featuredFlash Fiction

Open the Line

A late-night Pittsburgh radio host has built an eleven-year career interviewing the dead on air, while everyone argues over whether he's a fraud. It's real, and one night the line opens for the one voice he's spent his whole career…

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The wall featuredFlash Fiction

The Wall

A corporal who hangs his lantern on a dead man's hand protruding from the trench wall has stopped flinching at any of it: the rats, the men packed into the mud, the comrade who took three days to die where…

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The hole featuredFlash Fiction

The Hole

Two soldiers, one American and one German, fall into the same shell crater in the Ardennes when the temperature hits minus thirty-two. The cold doesn't care which side they're on, and neither can survive the night alone.

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The Violin Maker's ApologyFlash Fiction

The Violin Maker’s Apology

The violin was finished on a Friday in November, and Heinrich Baumann knew immediately that he’d made a mistake. Not a flaw. The instrument was flawless. The spruce top had been carved to within a tenth of a millimeter of…

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The Cartographer of Lost PlacesFlash Fiction

The Cartographer of Lost Places

Emile Soreau drew maps of places that no longer existed, and people kept showing up at his shop asking for directions. The shop was on Rue des Oubliés in the 11th arrondissement, a narrow storefront between a locksmith and a…

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The RecipeFlash Fiction

The Recipe

The card was in Abuela’s recipe box, filed between arroz con pollo and bizcocho de limón, written in her cramped handwriting on a yellowed index card with a coffee ring on one corner. The title just said: Para el dolor.…

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The Astronaut's ConfessionFlash Fiction

The Astronaut’s Confession

Commander Diane Liao has been aboard the International Space Station for four hundred and thirteen days, which is ninety-three days past her scheduled return, and she has not told Houston about the light. She saw it on day twelve. Cupola…

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Snapshots from a Parallel LifeFlash Fiction

Snapshots from a Parallel Life

The album was wedged between a fondue set and a stack of National Geographics from the ’80s. Brown leather cover, no label, the spine cracked from use. Jenna picked it up because it was two dollars and she collected old…

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