Introduction

Flashed is a collection of "Flash" stories, presented here on SOL as one multi-part posting.

Whenever someone asks me, "So what are 'flash' stories, exactly?", I always give the same response. I tell them that flash stories are self-contained, full, but very short stories.

"How short?" they ask and I respond that they are never more than a thousand words long, and typically less than 500. I try to write 300 word flash simply because Ruthie's Club, the website I used to sell them to before it closed, imposed that limit.