Flash Fiction
Flash fiction is a short story genre that focuses on brevity. Its aim is to convey a powerful tale in as few words as possible. At Story Shack we judge anything under 1.000 words (with the occasional exception) to be flash fiction, and are proud of the high quality work by around 400 authors and over 50 illustrators. Every single story is illustrated.
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- Future Lost
- Roboguard
- Digging for Victory
- Stockholm Shadow
- Swingers
- The Daughter of the Gold-Rich King
- God’s Creatures
- Misfit
- The Plague of Caterpillars
- The Case of the Troubling Shoes
- Ghosts
- The Rift
- Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Speedy Mart
- Magic
- Under Watchful Eyes
- Living the Hero Dream
- New Life
- The People Went About Their Day Under the Sun
- In Step With The May Dance
- Dogs and Apples
- Seventeen Year Itch
- Writer’s Block
- Tarantulas in Flagstaff
- The Option
- My Time of Exile
- The Boat of Prestigious Pirates in Plankwalk and Pillaging and Pillaging
- The Orchard
- The House With No Windows | Bringing Chuckie In
- Black Steel
- The Puppeteer and the Gardener
- Fear of Honesty
- The Morning After
- Snow
- Dedication
- Drainpipe Daughter
- Turkey on Wheat
- It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
- The Gravedigger
- The Paranoid Husband
- Done In Before the Blue Ice Melted
- He Eats Sparrows
- Fish
- Nail Varnish
- The Summer Bride
- Clenched Teeth
- The Sadie Escapists – Part One
- The Long Way Home
- Turkey’s Revenge
- I Live Two Lives!
- The Relay
- Delivery
- How Wars Begin
- Noises
- The Bully, The Psychopath, Libby and Lorraine
- U-Turn
- The Night Sweeper
- Midnight Labor
- Vine
- Shades
- Everything in One Room
- The Usurper
- A Lion on the Shore
- Masquerade
- The Eye Sees More
- Just Tonight
- Miss Missouri
- The Irony
- Lisa
- Jump Cut
- The Tired Doctor
- I’d like to go back…
- Feline Fireball
- Aunt Jessie’s Box
- The House of Gravity
- The Hole
- 10:42 P.M.
- Court
- The Aloo Tree
- Julie’s Got a Gun
- Changes Are Coming in 2085, the Senator Says
- Cassie’s Paradox
- The Body by the Pond
- Men
- Paradise of Tolerance and Change
- The Digger
- The Interview
- The Dodecahedron Skirting the Round Hole
- Posted
- Reggie and the Pre-Afterlife Waiting Room
- Attie and the Owl
- Danger Zone
- The Trumpeter in the Sky
- Voices
- The Smell
- Slimeballs
- Katiebug- Two DImes
- Saving Sylvia
- Weight of an Echo
- Marooned in the Tarantula Nebula
- Love Unto the Dog Star
- I Saw You Standing At The Funeral
- Baby and Me
- The Stars are Juliet’s Eyes
- Lilac
- Time to Learn
- A Matter of Time
- Forever In Blue Jeans
- Between First and Final Breath
- A Ride For Family
- Ryan and Mr Fisher
- The Light From Within Grows Dim
- When Mikey Stole Melissa
- On / Off
- My First Deer
- Rainwashed
- The Goons
- Countdown
- A Travelling Salesman
- Jackass
- Bird of Paradise
- Coincidence or Retaliation?
- The Board Meeting
- Gabby Goose Gets Going
- La Folie á Deux
- Hunger
- The Mountain That Eats Men
- Fish or Cut Bait
- Rentless Love
- The Tooth
- Message in a Rose
- A Song of Heroes and Malloths
- The Morning After
- My Daddy Used to Say
- Time in the Park
- Bjorn Noordvidarvdervarn and the Shape-Shifters
- The Halloween Outhouse Caper
- Yellow Light
- Jimbo
- Leap of Faith
- In Memory of the Brightwell Family
- Golden Acres
- Eve
- The Brownies Episode
- Meandering in Silence
- The Ghost
- The Navigator
- The Next Chapter
- A Smidgen of Green
- School Days
- Child's Play
- No Fury
- Advice
- The Feather Palace
- A Family Matter
- Starstealer
- A Literary God (in Love)
- The Collector
- And Jimmy will go to sleep in his own little room again
- Truong
- What Dreams Are Made Of
- The New Guy
- Crunched
- The Brief and Insignificant Life of a Lowly Tower Guard
- Fillet
- The Revolt for Hannah Smith
- Steak for Tuff
- Old Love
- A Quiet Conversation
- The Condemned
- A Pillar of Truth
- Bubblegloop
- The Mystery of the Wantom Flippsbury-Brown Nutcracker Hare
- So Long as I have Yesterday
- Death and the Purple Hat
- Coffee
- One Year
- Behind the Barn with Carol Ann
- Fruit Breakfasts
- A Cold Holiday
- The Juice in the Golden Keg
- Jogging to Cadaverville
- Peaches
- Blue Sambo
- Phantom Lake
- The Finest Print Money can Buy
- Little Knight
- Tsaonetsi
- Dear Principal Chen
- New Year’s Resolutions
- Sand in my Shoes
- The Game
- Paddy Murphy’s Wake
- Finley’s Airplane
- Those Eyes
- Santa Claus Has a Space Ship
- Still Dark
- Too Short A Goodbye
- The Car with Three Wheels
- The Man with the Lined Face
- Vertigo
- Mad Hattie
- To Love Again
- The Hairbrush Murderer
- Vindication
- The Number Reader
- The EMTs
- The Soul Mechanic
- The River
- Helping Hand
- Making Lemonade
- The Folded Canyon
- Even Rat Pups Laugh Once In A While Part 2
- Wedding Day
- Three Uninvited Guests
- Right Hook
- 1A
- Rex
- The Creator
- Feeding the Ducks
- You Read About Local Politics and Hate the Sox
- Lady of Spades
- Dragon’s Breath
- Double
- Headstone
- Tim
- In the Dark
- The Dungeon
- Like No Other Muse
- Henry Showed Wendy His Paintings
- Daddy, Is Santa Claus Real?
- Love of God
- The Missed Free Throws
- McNicholson’s 14th Annual Cider-Bean Festival and Dance Off
- The Mopsos XIII
- The Tank
- The Scene
- A Humming Night
- The Picture House
- Parking Lot Superhero
- Merritt Bogdrosian Hunts Injun Style?
- The Beast
- The Newcomer
- Love Knows I’m Hurting
- Kites
- Skinwalking
- A Veiled Lady
- Rage
- Past Relations
- Frankie Ties
- Undefeated
- Whale Song
- Señorita, Oh Señorita
- Through A Child’s Eye
- Too Far
- Song for a 51 Year Old Bar Fly
- Dubs and Me
- Handle with Care
- Soldier | Part One
- Pamphliterature
- The Pin Insulator
- The Charlatan
- Sea Monsters
- Tara and the Back Yard Bear
- The Boers
- Guilt
- Exposed
- Incident On A Windswept Hill
- L717
- Two Minute Emotional Whirlwind
- The Playground
- The Birthday Party
- Exploration and Love
- The Pope
- Jesus and the Devil Walk into a Bar
- Hard Work Pays off in any Profession
- On Display
- A Song for Sweetie
- The Talent
- Art Is The Child
- Legionnaire
- Changing Tactics
- A Casualty of My Own War
- The Night Bus Doesn’t Stop Downtown
- Before We Had TV: a Memoir
- Fire ‘Em Up
- A Fairy’s Tale
- Under
- Cacophony
- Read My Story
- Fetch
- Two Drink Maximum
- Sunco
- Bartholo
- A Forgotten Feast
- The Valley of Doom
- The Notebook
- A Disgusting Thing
- Incandescent Friend
- Conscience As Wide As Hell
- An Unexpected Encounter in Jerusalem
- Black Firebird
- Stones
- Raketa
- The White Man
- Bars
- Black Diamonds
- Layers, Maybe. Does it Matter?
- The Case of the Unfortunate Pause
- Paint the Sky
- Saving Tim Murnane
- Overheard
- The Lion of Abilene
- XOXOX
- Monsters
- Touching Foreignness
- The Bus Stop
- Hide & Seek
- Broken
- The Mask Maker
- The Pond
- Candy Girl
- Blue Dress
- Reap the Whirlwind
- Uniforms
- The Sleepover
- The Search for Terry Brown
- Henny Comes Home
- The Stepfather
- Strangers in Peoria
- To Post or Not to Post
- Ghost Hunter
- Bloody Revenge
- Late Again
- The Convalescent
- The Wages of Sloth
- Pituitary
- Howdy Doody’s Dad
- Glass Eye
- The Virus
- Collecting Ticks
- Broken Glass
- Flesh
- The Pick of the Stand
- A Creased Heart
- Going Up!
- I am He who watches over you
- Sweet Ps
- 441
- McGillicuddy’s Wake
- No Thank You
- The Baker’s Tale
- The Brothers
- Disorderly Conduct
- Susan
- Ballast
- The Graveyard of Broken Swords
- Grandma’s Photograph
- The Icon
- A Wonderland of Books
- The Delivery Guy
- Dream Wheel
- Milk Cartons
- Smack Head
- We Appreciate Your Business
- Brothers
- Inheritance
- Even Rat Pups Laugh Once in a While Part 6
- Patsy Foley Was Roly-Poly in 1947
- Traveler
- Jimmy Johnson
- A Final Distress Call
- A Mind of Its Own
- Love on the Savanna
- The Day I Became a…
- Early Retirement
- Shredder
- Artificial Wife
- Checkmate on an Empty Board
- Sudden Creation
- The Farm
- The Blinds
- Chasing Armadillos
- Pink Slip
- The Red Rose
- The Character-Driven Story
- The Magical Night
- Crime writer’s book sales soar after husband slain like twisted plot
- D-4842
- Brown Haze
- Inside Lookin Out
- An Oasis Of Calm
- A Homecoming Revelation
- Beard Club
- Chip in the Handle
- The Servant
- Father, Not Dad
- The Canine Connection
- The Tree and the Hourglass
- The Scar
- Melancholy
- Melee
- Child’s Play
- That Old Chevrolet
- Night Watch
- Soldier | Part Two
- The Twelfth Day
- The Ferryman’s Wife
- Lunacy
- Prudence Demands…
- Should I Leave or Stay?
- Miss Apprehension
- The Road to Cortez
- Ambience
- This is How it Began
- Impetus
- Time Lapse
- Christ in the Desert
- Humanity
- Amanda
- Why Can’t We Save Ourselves
- Pandora
- And Death Shall Have No Dominion
- Sand
- Nanny’s Room
- Face Paint
- EMO-Mail
- Summertime
- The Onyx Halls
- Pecan Pie
- It Was Frogs
- The First of the Year
- The Weight of Reveries
- Maybe It Was Sleep Apnea
- The Convenience Store
- A Walk with the Damned
- Ordinary Moments
- Nothing Special
- Strobe
- Four Strangers Near the Weathered Statue in a Downtown Park
- The Ghetto Ain’t Forever
- I Hate the Sunshine
- Making the Eyes
- Bury Your Soul Six Feet Under
- REM
- To Supersede, To Sit Upon
- Submersion
- Frozen Baby
- Got Tickets?
- Chuck the Canadian Corpse
- The Wolves are Howling in the Darkness (The Darkness is Hungry at the Door)
- Nobody Will Believe Anything Manny Says
- Ashes
- A Miner’s Canary
- Chicken Breast and Rump Roast
- Reluctant Punk
- Soldier | Part Four
- Lesbians in a Dragon
- Calypso
- The Grave Sweeper
- Sea Level
- Heroin Hero
- Octagon
- Even Rat Pups Laugh Once In A While Part 3
- King of the Mountain
- Dirt Soup
- Chicken Fajitas
- The Case of the Shouldering Thief
- Leilani
- A Flash of White
- Godfrey Give Me
- Mr. Fox
- Pickles And Whispers
- Crackpot
- Shell Shocked
- The Tattoo
- Fallen
- Poached Egg
- No Biggy
- Summer 10
- The Meadow
- Mama Knows Best
- What’s Funny?
- They Always Come Back For More
- A Cabin With No Fireplace
- Mr. Peanut Takes a Bride
- In the Evening
- Red Cabin
- S’mores
- Rowena
- Make Believe
- A Waltz for Two
- A Swingin’ Cat
- Lost Mitten
- Nomen oblitum, or, Forgotten Name
- Ménage á Trois
- The Improper Princess
- German Baba of Dhoot Kalan
- Skybound
- Cold and Hot
- Replacement Turtles
- Calling Home From A Phone Booth Outside A Pub In North Dublin
- The Banana Peel Slip
- Mikey Frick Finds a Flower
- Dollar Store
- The Mystery of St Aidan’s
- The World’s First Intervention
- Firefly
- The Secret School Prize
- Not Afraid of the Dark
- Self-Portrait
- End of the Line
- Déjà Vu
- On Mannerheimintie
- Yard Dogs
- You don’t know anything
- Stuffing
- Sunday Morning
- Genesis
- Funeral for Charlie
- Inked
- The Fixer
- Defining Shoulders
- The Housewife
- Soldier | Part Five
- The Gymnasium Duel
- A Day of Such Good Cheer
- Critics
- Nocturne
- The Dervish and the Little Girl
- Cronus
- Postcard for Arizona
- Blank
- Famous Common People I Have Known, Mick Hensley
- Alicia #1
- Mercury
- Is This An Emergency?
- Reunion with Em
- Bat in the Belfry
- Lachrymosa
- The Beast Lord
- Mind Freak
- The Last Tequila Stinger
- The Thunder’s Roar
- Clockwork
- An Immodest Proposal
- Keeping Up Appearances
- A Hog’s Heart
- Faces
- Mary’s Birthday
- Choir
- Angry Women Museum
- Audiocide
- Absolut
- The Other
- Peacefully Coexist
- Tight Forty-Five
- The Fairy and the Tree
- The Last Song
- Jack and Jill
- Warm Smoke in November
- Getting It Right
- Sasha the Shapeshifting Cat
- The Lone Pine
- Pottering About in Thailand
- Flameborn
- Rearview Mirror
- The Weather Girl
- The World Bell
- The People We Never Know
- Lemon Pie
- The Gift
- The Angel Watches
- Blood, Sweat, and Tears
- Bane
- Unwritten
- You Bought Me a Plane Ticket to Come Home for Christmas
- The Wrong Old Lady
- Night of the Dragon
- The View
- Serial Killer Sentenced
- White
- The Light
- The King of the World
- Perchance Not to Dream
- Happy Valentines, Ringo Starr
- Technical Support
- At the Seams
- Love for the Mistress
- Salsa
- Killing Geckos
- Light
- Cadillac Love
- The Flip
- The Story of How the Dragon Got Its Scales
- Hitchhike
- Drive
- Mud Boy
- Hype
- The Ants Go Marching Two by Two
- Lady Marmalade & The Ratcatcher
- Gretchen in the Box
- Rupert
- The Book
- Shadow Dad
- A Guest Presentation on Mental Health from Your Post-Secondary Institution
- Sparing Partners No More
- Season’s Greetings
- Ghost Writer
- Going Postal
- Paper Cut Girl
- Cat Army
- Feeling Rain
- Still Drunk
- Big Tree
- Dear Mom
- The Hour I First Believed
- The Others
- How Akram Came to Fly Business Class Back to Yemen Double Fisted
- Snap
- Summer’s End
- The Call Was for a Foot
- Heart Trouble
- Cause and Effect
- Maji
- Pyre
- Pedicab
- Nightswimming
- Love and Anger at 80, According to Elmer
- Future Robots
- Rainbringer
- Our New Home
- The Crow King of The Junkyard
- Middle School
- True to His Word
- The Rings
- A Tale of Two Cities
- Herb is dead
- Absolute Zero
- Nin’s Glory
- The Tortoise and Hare Revisited
- Little Princess
- But
- Corner Store
- Our Daughter Laments the Past
- Erasing Charlie
- Remember the Good Times
- The Creatives
- The Submariner
- Skype Credit
- Isaiah
- The Smartest Kid in the Room
- Clown Relief and Aid Providers
- The Beach
- If Only Someone Had Cared a Little More
- Lunch is on me
- Spirit of the Beanstalk
- That Good Night
- Wings
- Cow
- Let Him Find Another Door
- Mollified
- Warehouse Wars
- Space Hunt
- The Working Man
- Shoot the Mail Carrier, Burn the Letters
- It’s Almost Sunday Morning
- Spin
- Guys and Dolls
- The Will
- No Woman’s Land
- My Bowl of Congee
- Bug Catcher
- Fridge City
- Wolfgang’s Handkerchief
- Hold On
- Trains
- Desperation
- Cohabitation
- Going Dancing
- The Wager
- Imagine
- Prom Night
- Helplessness
- End of This World
- Scrap Suit
- Dance of the Whale
- One Below
- The King’s Wife
- Fifth Floor
- Forever
- Prerogatives
- Testament
- Lawyers, Car Dealers, and other Whores
- Spring Firefighter
- Emptied
- Foot Steps
- An Affective Disorder, the Doctor Said
- Constellations
- The Great Bandini
- Change
- The Lonely Kiss
- Avocational Confession
- New Word to the Pa-Ayello
- Pulse
- The Leap
- One of Us
- The Waiting Room
- Inversion
- Chris Salis
- Need You Now
- The Rude Chambermaid
- Tomato Soup
- The Touch
- Shining Armor
- The Dragon’s Inn
- Born to Play
- Jessica and the Rabbit
- A New Life
- Muzzle
- The Urinal
- The Gas Station
- Hunting for Evidence
- Movin to the Moon
- Marriage after a really, very long time
- Reunion
- Follow Focus
- In Case You Go Bald
- Jimmy the blind Man Says He’s in Love
- The Organization
- Noel
- Down the Hill
- Chlorophyll and Romance
- Beautiful Baby
- Harry and Clyde
- Grull
- Clara
- The Oaken Chair
- Jeopardy Double
- Coffee Apocalypse
- The Railway Incident
- Helios Fallen
- Zoo
- Reindeer Pictures
- If I Know a Song of Africa
- A Puzzle in the Woods
- The Scoop
- There is Something Going On
- Forever Never
- Albeit of Salt
- Sentry
- Carbonara
- The Baby Blue Ford
- A Burned Image
- The Kickball Game
- A Career Driven Woman
- The Last Stop
- The Muhurtham
- In the Wake of Technology
- Nothing Stands Against a Hero!
- Under the Sheets
- And so the Hat Dropped
- A Not So Distressed Damsel
- Conversation with the Wilderness
- A Secret Admirer
- Cloudy Skies Burned Clear
- Even Rat Pups Laugh Once In A While Part 1
- One Last Cigarette
- The Forge
- Whispers of Love
- Lying in Wait
- The Brothers
- Luminous, Passing By
- How to Fail at Telemarketing
- Diary of an Unknown Soldier
- Vend
- Getting Rowdy
- An Act of Love
- Clouds There, But No Water
- Because of Pictures
- The Cat’s Owner
- A Really Good Day
- The Tourists Attraction
- Through the Storm
- The More Deceived
- Alchemy
- Baby Bea
- Finding Herself
- Lobster Meat is Sweet
- The Penguin Who Loved to Crunch Ice
- Caucus at the Parking Meter
- Lost My Signal
- Just One More Time
- Sparks
- Even Rat Pups Laugh Once In A While Part 5
- The Wild Man
- Running with the Wolves
- I Bumped Into the Pigeon Man
- Perspective
- Soldier | Part Three
- Rental Property
- The Lesson
- Android Adoption Day
- The Last Night
- Indulging
- But I’m On The ‘Do Not Call’ List
- Prophets
- The Summer Drive
- Last Spring
- Hand Drawn Sky
- From One Story to Another
- Under Cover
- Laugh It Off
- Baby Doll
- The Continental Ladies’ Academy
- The Presence
- The Bunny Hunt
- Dear Susan
- In a Flash
- We Won’t Be Right Back
- Garbage Day
- Captain Daddy
- The Hill
- A Great Love
- And It Was All Terrible, in the End
- The Protest
- It Could Be Us
- Kassidy’s Roof
- The Exhibit
- Even Rat Pups Laugh Once In A While Part 4
- The Kama Sutra Aficionado
- On Her Toes
- The Boys
- A Tale of Two Glasses
- American Medicine
- Not Now
- A Cloud on the Prairie
- Walking on Pins and Needles
- When You See God, Keep Your Hands Off His Face
- They Know Your Face
- Lull of The Tide
- It’s Just a Car
- First Date
- Nathan #1
- Simple Holidays
- The Prank
- Doppelganger
- Obregon
- The Walk
- Guilty
- The Cadillac
- The Hall of Familiar Faces
- Time to Leave
- Blah Blah
- New Beginnings
- Homecoming Queen
- The Quiet Section
- Puppy’s Multiple Homes
- The Tea-Time Visitors
- The Briefcase
- After A Little While Amongst The Cows
- High Rise Love
- The Wish
- Prom
- Through the Eyelids
- Midnight Elvis
- Seventy Years
- A Cry For Attention
- Tinderbox
- No Time Like the Present
- A Pint and a Pie
- The Mannerisms of a Broken Fork
- The Jester
- Pickled Love
- A Butterfly’s Gift
- Banana Slugs
- Footnotes Only!
- Check Mate
- Mitzi
- Choose Me
- Hold Me Close
- Jack
- The Maiden and the Legs
- Crystal
- Vaila And The Ant
- Dodge in the Driveway
- Felix
- George & Gladys
- Punching Bags
- The Early Bird
- Phoebe
- Melted Ice Cream
- Different Worlds
- Fowl Luck
- What If Mary Had Chosen Otherwise
- 6V
- Thanksgiving Bite
- Memories of Life
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