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Flash fiction is primarily determined by its word count. The max word count I've seen for flash fiction is 1000 words but could be as low as 300 words. For it to "count" as flash fiction it has to be a complete story with a beginning, middle, and end and not just an excerpt.

There are other sub-categories of flash fiction though:
Micro fiction - Anywhere from 50-250 word max depending on the site
Drabble - exactly 100 words
69er - Story in exactly 69 words
Nanofiction - A story of exactly 55 words
Twitfiction - A story in 140 characters or less

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