CLASSIC SHORT-SHORTS

All the stories below are classic short-shorts. Flash fiction type writing is nothing new but it is something that's living quite strong now. But we can always learn more from those classics that came before.    

Guy de Maupassant "The Kiss" 1354 words

http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/TheKiss.html 

Guy de Maupassant "Indiscretion" 1429 words http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/Indiscretion.html 

Guy de Maupassant "A Dead Woman's Secret" (1411 words) http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/dws.html

Guy de Maupassant "Coco" (1472 words)

http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/coco.html

Fielding Dawson "Vertical Fields" (762 words) http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/vrtclfld.html

 
Gabriel Garcia Marquez "One Of These Days" (994 words) http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/ootdays.html 

Liam O'Flaherty "The Sniper" (1619 words) http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/sniper.html

H. H. Munro (Saki) "Mrs. Packletide's Tiger" (1377 words) http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/mrspackl.html

H.H. Munro (Saki) "The Open Window" (1274 words) http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/openwin.html

Mark Twain "A Telephonic Conversation" (810 words) http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/Telephonic.html

William Carlos Williams "The Use of Force" (1564 words) http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/force.html

Virginia Woolf "A Haunted House" (710 words) http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/haunths.html

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