Flash Fiction
Flash Fiction or micro fiction are very short stories typically up to 1200 words but that have some character development. Here we’ve selected some of the very best stories from famous authors
A Ghost in Love by Songling Pu
A Ghost in Love by Songling Pu is taken from a collection of Classical Chinese stories Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. Qing dynasty writer Songling Pu wrote close to 500 stories over a period of forty years from the late 1600s and ending in the early 1700s, but did not appear in print until 1766
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An Arrest by Ambrose Bierce
An Arrest by Ambrose Bierce was originally published in 1913 as part of his short story collection Present at the Hanging and Other Ghost Stories.
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Dick Baker’s Cat by Mark Twain
Dick Baker’s Cat by Mark Twain was published in the anthology, Lords of the Housetops: Thirteen Cat Tales in 1921
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The Lay of a Golden Goose by Louisa May Alcott
The Lay of a Golden Goose by Louisa May Alcott, describes a world inhabited by talking geese, ducks, and other birds, but it is an autobiographical poem. It reflects her desire to explore the world and the hardships that can build against people.
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Ex Oblivione by H. P. Lovecraft
Ex Oblivione by H. P. Lovecraft is a prose poem written in late 1920 or early 1921 and first published in The United Amateur in March 1921, under the pseudonym Ward Phillips.
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Ningyo No Haka by Lafcadio Hearn
Ningyo No Haka by Lafcadio Hearn first appeared in Gleanings in Buddha-Fields, the third book of Hearn’s Japanese period, published in 1897.
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The Father by Björnstjerne Björnson
The Father by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson’s was originally written in Norwegian and published in 1860. The story is set in rural Norway and appeared in The Bridal March and Other Stories
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The Mystery of the Semi-Detached by Edith Nesbit
Written in 1893, The Mystery of the Semi-Detached by Edith Nesbit tells of a young man perplexed when his lover fails to show up for a half-clandestine meeting and passes her house on the way home.
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My Friend by Kahlil Gibran
My Friend by Kahlil Gibran is a parable published in 1918 and is taken from his book The Madman: His Parables and Poems. Kahlil Gibran is a distinguished Lebanese American writer, poet, and visual artist.
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Napoleon and the Spectre by Charlotte Brontë
Written when she was just 17, Napoleon and the Spectre by Charlotte Brontë was taken from her novella Green Dwarf in 1833. It was later republished in The Twelve Adventurers and other stories in 1925.
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