It seems to me that many readers here do not understand the "flash" story style. A very crude look at the story scoring indicates that the longer the story the higher overall rating it gets with high numbers going to the serials with 20 to 30 and more chapters.
Every now and then I get a little idea that can be expressed briefly without long-winded character development and so on. It's fun to knock out a story of only a page or two in just a few hours, read it over for proofing and then get it out there. But a number of times I have gotten comments like "it's too short". DUH. I'm careful to label these as "flash" genre. If you want a long story, the size numbers are there before you ever open it.
I've got 28 flash stories written and I want to put out a dozen or so over the next week. Let's see if anybody has read this little complaint and I'll watch the scores and comments. PS, if it's badly written I don't expect a good score just because it's short.