Elder the Dwarf
Maester
I've come up with a character idea I like and am thinking of writing a short story about him. I have most the story kind of laid out in my head, and was wondering how long your short stories usually are.
The shortest I've written was a page and a half. The last one was over 65,000 words.
There are a lot of online publications these days that prefer flash fiction, which I understand to be 1,000 words or less (though I could be wrong). I've written one flash piece, which I'm sort of sending around right now. I've seen other publications that take 7,500 words, but I agree with the others, those are harder to sell.
The shortest piece I ever sold was 64 words and the longest short story was 8,800 words.