FLASH FICTION
On the Bus
A free flash story to start with.
Read “On the Bus”
DELENDACARTHAGOSHORT FICTION FROM OBLIQUE ANGLES
Microfiction
& flash fiction.
Read free short stories, flash fiction, and microfiction. Small forms are not smaller ambitions: a title, a turn, or a missing line can change the whole story.
01 / HOW THE WORKS READ
Every word carries weight. The reader completes the gaps.
These stories move between literary and speculative fiction without settling neatly into either. They use compression, ambiguity, sudden shifts of perspective, allegory, and dark humour to make the reader an active participant.
Some are only a handful of words long. Others take a little more room. What matters is not the label but the pressure: how much a story can contain without explaining itself to death.
02 / START HERE
FREE SHORT STORIES, FLASH FICTION & MICROFICTION
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MICROFICTION · 20 WORDS
Horizons
“Is that a falling star? Make a wish, Oksana, quick.”
“I wish we had another day.”