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If you're trying out new creative challenges this month, and you've never tried flash fiction before, perhaps now's a good time. If you've tried it in the past--or if you're proficient--have you done any lately?

What is flash fiction? The usual definition is fiction shorter than 2,000 words. But in that category, believe it or not, there are shorter-length challenges, too. Try 300 words.  One hundred words. Even two sentences, like the Two-sentence Horror Stories I reblogged a few Octobers ago. How short can you go?

IMAGE: Many thanks to the ever-creative Debbie Ridpath Ohi, via Wendy Burke's @WendyBurke101 Twitter profile, for this cartoon!

Two-Sentence Horror Story

In the run-up to Halloween this year, I am sharing a collection of Two-Sentence Horror Stories with you, one per week.

IMAGE CREDIT: Ty's Shufflings on Tumblr. See the whole collection here.

Two-Sentence Horror Story #8

In the run-up to Halloween this year, I am sharing a collection of Two-Sentence Horror Stories with you, one per week.

IMAGE CREDIT: Ty's Shufflings on Tumblr. In the interest of keeping them fresh one at a time, I'm going to make you scroll down till you find them, however.

Two-Sentence Horror Story #7

In the run-up to Halloween this year, I am sharing a collection of Two-Sentence Horror Stories with you, one per week.

IMAGE CREDIT: Ty's Shufflings on Tumblr. In the interest of keeping them fresh one at a time, I'm going to make you scroll down till you find them, however.

Two-Sentence Horror Story #6

In the run-up to Halloween this year, I am sharing a collection of Two-Sentence Horror Stories with you, one per week.

IMAGE CREDIT: Ty's Shufflings on Tumblr. In the interest of keeping them fresh one at a time, I'm going to make you scroll down till you find them, however.

Two-Sentence Horror Story #5

In the run-up to Halloween this year, I am sharing a collection of Two-Sentence Horror Stories with you, one per week.

IMAGE CREDIT: Ty's Shufflings on Tumblr. In the interest of keeping them fresh one at a time, I'm going to make you scroll down till you find them, however.

Two-Sentence Horror Story #4

In the run-up to Halloween this year, I am sharing a collection of Two-Sentence Horror Stories with you, one per week.

IMAGE CREDIT: Ty's Shufflings on Tumblr. In the interest of keeping them fresh one at a time, I'm going to make you scroll down till you find them, however.

Two-Sentence Horror Story #3

In the run-up to Halloween this year, I am sharing a collection of Two-Sentence Horror Stories with you, one per week.

IMAGE CREDIT: Ty's Shufflings on Tumblr. In the interest of keeping them fresh one at a time, I'm going to make you scroll down till you find them, however.

Two-Sentence Horror Story #2

In the run-up to Halloween this year, I am sharing a collection of Two-Sentence Horror Stories with you, one per week.

IMAGE CREDIT: Ty's Shufflings on Tumblr. In the interest of keeping them fresh one at a time, I'm going to make you scroll down till you find them, however.

Two-Sentence Horror Stoy #1

My ever-resourceful son Tyrell has put me in touch with another cool thing.  I've always been fascinated by a sentence or a short paragraph that speaks volumes about what has not been said.  In that vein, he shared with me a collection of "Two-Sentence Horror Stories".  I'd love to attribute the author, but I don't know who it is.

In the run-up to Halloween this year, I mean to share them with you, one per week.  I know they've been published elsewhere as a collection, but I've discovered each one has its own resonating effect.

Therefore, please bear with me as I dole them out, one by one, every Saturday for the next few weeks.  Here is the first:

 

IMAGE CREDIT: Ty's Shufflings on Tumblr. In the interest of keeping them fresh one at a time, I'm going to make you scroll down till you find them, however.