Discussion
FLASH-FICTION IS…?
Here are some of the answers I’ve had so far:
‘Short.’
‘Moreish.’
‘A concentrated story.’
‘Like poison – effective in small doses.’
FLASH-FICTION IS…?
Here are some of the answers I’ve had so far:
‘Short.’
‘Moreish.’
‘A concentrated story.’
‘Like poison – effective in small doses.’
Maybe a cross between realistic fiction and poetry? Everything on this site seems to have an element of quirkiness or fantasy about it.
Honestly too short to really get into writing a storyline.
My 50 – 80 word stories have story lines. You can just describe a scene but then you can do that with longer fiction too.
I think very short stories, like Ernest Hemingway’s 6 word Baby Shoes (For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn) open the imagination to fill in the blanks, the way poetry does. They intrigue, allow the reader to speculate, pose questions. I think many of the stories in the anthology allow more than one strand of story, and manage to tie at least one up, in a very tight word count. Flash fiction means making each word count, and possibly do more than one job. A description of a scene becomes one line, or the way a character speaks. I do think , with a flash piece, you often realise the speculation could lead into a whole novel.