Flash Fiction

Flash Fiction will be published on the 15th of every month.

Please submit entries to bettinabroderick@comcast.net as an attachment.  Include name and contact info.  We’ll try to respond to all submissions. 

What is Flash Fiction? 

From Wikipedia – Flash Fiction has roots going back to Aesop’s Fables, and practitioners have included Boles, Prus, Anton Chekhov, O. Henry, Franz Kafka, H.P.Lovecraft, Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Fredric Brown and Lydia Davis.  New life has been brought to flash fiction by the Internet, with its demand for short, concise work.

Flash Fiction differs from a vignette in that the flash-fiction work contains the classic story elements: protagonist, conflict, obstacles or complications, and resolution. However, unlike the case with a traditional short story, the limited word length often forces some of these elements to remain unwritten, that is, hinted at or implied in the written storyline. It could be as short as one sentence.  < ?background>

The Ides of Flash is dedicated to publishing well written Flash Fiction between 500 and 1000 words (maximum). Poetry will be accepted. We are partial to stories containing themes which interest lesbians, women and progressive politics, but will publish any material which we like. We are not interested in pornography or graphic violence and/or language, but will not exclude entries containing some of these elements if those elements are pertinent to the piece.