Flash fiction is short. The first thing people want to know, though, is “how short?” I tend to be very noncommittal about an answer. Who cares? This short piece, that has been ascribed to Hemingway, ...

Good morning and welcome back to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. I’m Boris Kachka, the books editor at the Los Angeles Times, and I’m in the mood for fiction — lots of it. Fortunately, my TBR ...

In their second collection of ""flash fiction"" stories-aka ""short shorts""-Thomas and Shapard have pulled together almost 80 works that are consistently swift and powerful, distilling the ...

Nancy Stohlman has been a fixture in the local literary scene for years – and she’s got a long history with one of the shortest forms. Still, flash fiction is in many ways just coming into its own, so ...

Accessible enough for pleasure reading but instructive enough for the classroom, this volume brings together brief essays by 25 writers known for their talent in flash fiction, aka the ""short short ...

This is the sixth story in this summer’s online Flash Fiction series. You can read the entire series, and our Flash Fiction stories from previous years, here. Just ...