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So, another user posted a thread asking for feedback on their short story, and I was excited to discovered it was essentially a piece of flash fiction rather than a short story. It reminded of how much I love flash fiction, both to read and to write it, and I thought I would make a little writing thread for myself to post some of my old flash fiction work, and to start posting some new things.
If you don't know what flash fiction is, also know as micro-fiction and easily compared to vignettes, they're very very small pieces of writing, anywhere between 50-1,000 words, that try to take advantage of brevity and tight writing to evoke moods and concepts and the idea of a larger story rather than a full narrative itself the way a short story, novella, or novel are designed to. There's lots of different terms for specific lengths of flash fiction - twitterature, dribbles, drabbles, sudden fiction, micro-story, etc.
The most famous piece of flash fiction that most people probably know about was supposedly written by Hemingway:
So, this is just a thread I made to post flash fiction in. Feel free to share your own if you get the idea bug!
If you don't know what flash fiction is, also know as micro-fiction and easily compared to vignettes, they're very very small pieces of writing, anywhere between 50-1,000 words, that try to take advantage of brevity and tight writing to evoke moods and concepts and the idea of a larger story rather than a full narrative itself the way a short story, novella, or novel are designed to. There's lots of different terms for specific lengths of flash fiction - twitterature, dribbles, drabbles, sudden fiction, micro-story, etc.
The most famous piece of flash fiction that most people probably know about was supposedly written by Hemingway:
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So, this is just a thread I made to post flash fiction in. Feel free to share your own if you get the idea bug!