r/Microfiction

866 archived posts · Aug 2015 – Sep 2026

Fiction too brief to follow a conventional structure.

r/Microfiction

We encourage scenes and vignettes of evocative, poignant, or amusing quality. Keep them short - a brief paragraph, a couple of sentences, or even a single poignant sentence. “For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Worn” - a six word 'novel' by Ernest Hemingway serving as an example of extremely short fiction.

Created Aug 20, 2015

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Welcome to MicroFiction! We encourage scenes and vignettes of evocative, poignant, or amusing quality. Keep them short - a brief paragraph, a couple of sentences, or even a single poignant sentence. Monica Heisey of The New Yorker offers more ironically tragic examples here.

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