One hundred and fifty words is not much.  Be selective. Don’t rush.

An expansive mini-guide for structuring your short story. — Structure and Character in the Short Story Let’s talk about short story creation and structure. Word Limits: · A short story typically has 1500 to a 7500-words. You need to always read and follow submission guidelines when submitting stories. · Flash Fiction has around 500 to a 1000-words.

Awareness returned. The monolith had protected me from the worst of the fall out.

Phantom crystal, by its nature was created out of weakness and then reinforced. There was always a fault in its creation.

The wails of the dead were still audible as awareness returned. I had died, but once more I lived.

The Head used the wails of the dead like arrows shooting lasers of ghostly sound directly at us.

We were deep in the belly of the monster. The obsidian monolith stood center of the lowest chamber.