Flash Fiction Articles

What is Flash Fiction? by Kezia Richmond

Flashes On The Meridian: Dazzled by Flash Fiction by Pamelyn Casto

Writing Flash Fiction by G. W. Thomas

Flashing Your Setting by S. Joan Popek
Good article on including setting in your flash fiction.

Fiction in a Flash
This site is a great resource for flash fiction, providing articles and links to markets, as well as access to a flash fiction newsgroup.

Urban Legends

Urban Legends and Folklore on About.com
“The starting place for exploring Urban Legends and Folklore on the Web: Internet hoaxes, rumors, urban legends and urban myths debunked. “

Scambusters: Don’t Believe Everything You Read

How Urban Legends Work by Tom Harris
Detailed explanation of how urban legends come about and how they become widely believed. Very interesting article.

Myths, Fables

Myths and Legends
If you are looking for information on the myths or legends of any world culture, this is the place to start. This site contains Web links, suggested print titles, story collections of myths from around the world, academic studies of myth, mythical creatures, and a whole lot more.

Amazon

Virtual Bookworm

Barnes and Noble

Flash Fiction Markets

flashquake
flashquake is prestigious online journal for flash fiction, flash nonfiction, and flash poetry. This is a paying market with high standards, very good writers contributing, and excellent writing.

The Vestal Review
This is a theme-based electronic market that accepts flash fiction stories under 500 words. The Vestal Review is a quarterly publication. This is an excellent paying market.

55 Fiction Contest
This now-famous contest leads to a lot of great super-short flash fiction. This site has many great examples.

Another Realm.com
This is a non-paying science fiction, fantasy, and horror market that takes flash fiction.

The First Line
This site publishes flash fiction based on the concept of the given first line. It is a quarterly publication that publishes the best stories that begin with the given first line.

Flashshot: Daily Genre Flash Fiction
Non-paying market; recommended for the Bram Stoker Award
FLASHSHOT is a daily dose of genre (Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, and Surreal) flash fiction usually around 100 words long, sent to your e-mail box every day. All you have to do is subscribe at the e-mail below. It costs you nothing.

The Green Tricycle
A fun, very stylish online magazine that specializes in very short flash fiction (under 200 words).

Ink Pot/Lit Pot
Ink Pot is the quarterly print journal for Lit Pot Press, which also has an e-zine, Lit Pot. Both publish flash fiction. This market also publishes short stories, poetry, and creative nonfiction, features wonderful graphic design, and a pleasing, easy-to-read layout. This is a paying market.

PIF Magazine
This is one of the cutting-edge online literary magazines out there. It has been online since 1995 and seems likely to be around for a very long time to come. A good paying online market.

ProseAX
This is an award-winning online e-zine that publishes flash fiction.

Story House Coffee
Want to have your original work of fiction printed on the label of a can of gourmet coffee? Story House Coffee is your market!

Toasted Cheese
Nicely-designed, award-winning e-zine that accepts flash fiction (stories under 500 words) and serves as a resource for writers.

Would That It Were: The Internet’s Premier Magazine of Historical SF
A very specialized science fiction market with a narrow focus, as well as many awards and good pay to back up its high quality.