How to Write Flash Fiction

5 steps to creating a satisfying short story

Alex Kilcannon

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I enjoy reading flash fiction. I love writing it even more.

Flash fiction is generally any story that comes in under a thousand words — some definitions or marketplaces will allow you up to fifteen hundred. Anything over that and you’re into short story territory.

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Alex Kilcannon

Writer, poet, outdoors instructor and Mother of Teenagers. I rewild kids for a living.