[quote=Jannah]
I'm not quite sure what the differences are between flash fiction and short stories? I'm guessing flash fiction is just a shorter version of a short story.
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Well yes, that's pretty much the idea. If you look at the rules, flash fiction and short stories have different word ranges that entries must fall under. Also, flash fiction calls for the use of at least one component per entry, whereas short stories requires at least two.

On the old Guild, the two contests were referred to as "Casual" and "Advanced", but that brought up a lot of misconceptions. We changed the names to better reflect the two categories.