Read the Very Short Stories Article in Wired Magazine, available online at http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/sixwords.html. This article lists six-word science fiction stories by 33 famous writers.
Subscribe to the Story Bytes monthly e-zine and weekly e-mail newsletter at http://www.storybytes.com. Story Bytes contains a 5-year repository of short, short fiction by promising young writers and seasoned professionals.
Visit Writer's Digest at http://www.writersdigest.com/short to read the winning entries in their annual short, short story competition. If you'd like to craft a very short story, you can enter the contest to win the $3,000 first prize.
Read Flash Fiction at http://www.flashfictiononline.com/. This site is dedicated to publishing short fiction under 1,000 words on a monthly basis. It also features themed writing, such as Christmas stories, science fiction and literary fiction.
Go to your library or favorite online bookseller and search for titles related to short, short stories or very short fiction. You'll find numerous anthologies of stories under 1,000 words. Select a volume based on a literary theme or favorite writer.
A few examples include "Micro Fiction: an Anthology of Really Short Stories" and "Sudden Fiction" an anthology of the best short, short stories by famous writers such as Raymond Carver, John Updike and Ernest Hemingway.
Learn how people can summarize their life in six short words by visiting Smith Magazine's "Six Word Memoir Project" at http://www.smithmag.net.