Tricks and Tips for Flash Fiction Writing

Yes, it’s pretty funny. No, he probably didn’t write it.

How short can you make a flash-fiction story?

Ernest Hemingway supposedly wrote: “For sale: baby shoes, never used.” Whether or not he really came up with that micro-tale, its six words hint at more pathos than some 1,000-page books. Read it aloud, and feel that faint rustling of sadness in your gut.