Unmissable super short stories by brilliant women. Here is Stylist’s guide to the flash fiction female writers you need to read (plus you could probably do it all in the next hour…).

It can be far more insightful to read out of your comfort zone: for example, look at the way a fast-paced crime fiction short story is structured compared to a literary one – does your own story ...

Fiction means the story is made up, though of course you can base your story on something that has really happened. Is a short story the same as a novel? A short story is not a cut-down novel.