Very short stories can get very, very short and still be good. The most famous example (supposedly written by Ernest Hemingway) draws a little sigh with only six words; it's a sales ad.

Lydia Davis, who was awarded the Man Booker International Prize in 2013, has been publishing short stories utterly unlike anyone else’s for almost 40 years. Sometimes as brief as a sentence or ...

Wired has a feature in the current issue called Very Short Stories. Here’s a snippet from the intro to explain what it’s about: We’ll be brief: Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words ...

Award-winning Incarnate Word Academy fifth-grade author publishes short story. Updated: Feb. 01, 2023, ... “I felt I had written a very special and unique piece,” Magdalene said.

A genius came to Brown on Thursday. Lydia Davis, recipient of a MacArthur ‘genius' fellowship and innovator of the very short story, gave a reading of her recent work in the McCormack Family Theater.

Break It Down, by Lydia Davis. Davis is a master of the very short story, and the collection that made her name, Break It Down, includes such works as the four-sentence “What She Knew,” where ...