Flash and Very Short Fiction

a genre of French fiction in 16th-17th centuries

a form of minimalist literature found in American short fiction

A short story is a piece of narrative fiction in written prose that can typically be read in a single sitting.

a short and descriptive piece of writing that captures a brief period in time

Chuanqi is a form of fictional short story or novella in Classical Chinese first formed in the Tang dynasty.

Dirty realism is a term coined by Bill Buford of Granta magazine to define a North American literary movement.

Flash fiction is a fiction narrative in the form of a very short piece of writing, which still offers a character arc or implies a larger story.

Flash prose, also known as flash literature, is brief creative writing, generally on the order of between 500 and 1500 words.

A feghoot (also known as a story pun or poetic story joke) is a humorous short story or vignette ending in a pun (typically a play on a well-known phrase), where the story contains sufficient context to recognize the punning humor.

A short-story cycle (sometimes referred to as a story sequence or composite novel) is a collection of short stories in which the narratives are specifically composed and arranged with the goal of creating an enhanced or different experience when reading the group as a whole as opposed to its individual parts.

European literary genre from the Renaissance consisting of short humorous stories