Micro fiction, a beginner's guide, learn about micro fiction, a form of fiction that tells a story in 6 to 300 words
Micro fiction is a small imaginative story with a character and plot
It's less than a page in length and often compared to flash fiction. Flash fiction is less than 1000 words including micro fiction
Micro fiction has 0.6 of a page and some magazines allow up to it
Despite its brevity, micro fiction still has the elements of fiction. It's brief and concise
making it faster to read and write. Examples include give it up by Franz Kafka and five stories by Lydia Davis
Contests include NYC Midnight micro fiction and reflex fiction contest, read micro stories in magazines like the literary bohemian use
prompts like writing a story that happens in less than five minutes. Micro fiction is growing in popularity and this guide is a work in progress