Very short stories

Description
Recommended collections and anthologies of the genre known variously as flash fiction, sudden fiction, microfiction, short shorts, etc. These stories are characterized by extreme brevity, ranging from a few lines to a few pages.
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Incidences
by Daniil Kharms
318 members
3 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
spiphany, bluepiano
2
Cronopios and Famas
by Julio Cortázar
1,458 members
32 reviews
4.1
Member
bluepiano
3
Palm-of-the-Hand Stories
by Yasunari Kawabata
815 members
13 reviews
4.1
Member
spiphany
4
The Voice Imitator
by Thomas Bernhard
453 members
7 reviews
3.8
Member
bluepiano
5
Stories of Mr. Keuner
by Bertolt Brecht
260 members
2 reviews
3.9
Member
spiphany
6
Short Shorts
by Irving Howe
258 members
4 reviews
4.1
Member
spiphany
7
One Minute Stories
by István Örkény
211 members
2 reviews
4
Member
spiphany
8
Centuria: One Hundred Ouroboric Novels
by Giorgio Manganelli
192 members
2 reviews
3.9
Member
spiphany
9
Complete Works and Other Stories
by Augusto Monterroso
175 members
7 reviews
4
Member
spiphany
10
The Facts of Winter
by Paul Poissel
136 members
4 reviews
3.8
Member
bluepiano
11
Trysting
by Emmanuelle Pagano
53 members
3 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
bluepiano
Explanations
bluepiano: (If fictional vignettes suggestive of stories = short stories, that is)
12
Metrophilias
by Brendan Connell
39 members
3 reviews
3.9
Member
bluepiano
13
Sweat and Industry (Printed Head)
by H.C. Artmann
11 members
4
Member
bluepiano
14
Obstacles
by Reinhard Lettau
10 members
Member
spiphany
15
112 einseitige Geschichten
by Franz Hohler
7 members
1 review
½ 4.5
Member
spiphany
16
Can't and Won't
by Lydia Davis
533 members
22 reviews
½ 3.6
17
Murder in the Dark: Short Fictions and Prose Poems
by Margaret Atwood
498 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
18
Flash Fiction: 72 Very Short Stories
by James Thomas
399 members
9 reviews
3.8
19
The Microscripts
by Robert Walser
270 members
4 reviews
4.1
20
Micro Fiction: An Anthology of Really Short Stories
by Jerome Stern
227 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
21
Sudden Fiction International: Sixty Short-Short Stories
by Robert Shapard
213 members
½ 3.7
22
Severance: Stories
by Robert Olen Butler
195 members
9 reviews
3.8
23
New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond
by Robert Shapard
177 members
3 reviews
½ 3.4
24
Pieces for the Left Hand: Stories
by J. Robert Lennon
163 members
7 reviews
3.8
25
Hint Fiction: An Anthology of Stories in 25 Words or Fewer
by Robert Swartwood
133 members
26 reviews
½ 3.6
26
Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine
by Diane Williams
103 members
10 reviews
½ 2.3
27
Cosmopolitans
by W. Somerset Maugham
94 members
3 reviews
3.8
29
Cigar-Box Faust and Other Miniatures
by Michael Swanwick
49 members
1 review
½ 4.3
30
You Do Understand (Slovenian Literature Series)
by Andrej Blatnik
30 members
1 review
4
31
Sawn-Off Tales (Salt Modern Fiction)
by David Gaffney
30 members
½ 3.3
32
The Best Small Fictions 2015
by Robert Olen Butler
27 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
33
Postcards From Impossible Worlds: The Collected Shortest Story
by Peter Chiykowski
23 members
1 review
½ 4.6
34
Blue Has No South
by Alex Epstein
21 members
3 reviews
3.1
35
New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction
by James Thomas
20 members
37
Tür an Tür mit einem anderen Leben: 350 neue Geschichten
by Alexander Kluge
9 members
4
38
Minutengeschichten
by Oskar Maria Graf
6 members
39
TWO HUNDRED AND ONE MINIATURE TALES
by Alejandro Córdoba Sosa
3 members
5