Flash-length writing in multiple genres is experiencing a surge in online and physical magazines taking shorter work—including publications solely focused on speculative writing such as science fiction, fantasy, dystopian, time travel, horror, and more. These shorter stories succeed in transporting readers out of our daily lives to entirely imagined spaces. With genre writing, these readers may explore new worlds made up of new technology, magic, an entirely different time, or even fall down holes of horror, all in mere minutes.