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	Flash fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Likely coined by James Thomas, Denise Thomas, and Tom Hazuka in their 1992 anthology by this name, flash fiction, also called "sudden fiction," "micro fiction," "postcard fiction" or "short-short fiction," is a sub-genre of the short story characterized by limited word length.
		Flash fiction differs from vignettes in that the works contain the classic story elements: protagonist, conflict, obstacles or complications, and resolution.
		Flash Flooding - A flash fiction website founded in June 2006 that's open to submissions of under 1000 words.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flash_fiction (599 words)

	Write Tight: Writing and Marketing Flash Fiction
		Flash fiction often has a surprise ending, a twist delivered in the last line or two, because it provides a final impact; however, a surprise ending is not a requirement.
		Although flash fiction is extremely short, it retains all of the primary components of a complete story: setting, characters, and conflict, all of which lead, finally, to the resolution, which should effect a change.
		In longer fiction we often see change in the protagonist; in flash fiction, change is more likely to occur not in the character, but in the reader’s perception of the character or of the world at large.
	www.stonethread.com /flash.html (1669 words)

	Flash Fiction: In Defense of Flash Fiction
		Word count is not necessarily important to me, but some writers attach word count to the definition of flash fiction, for instance “a story of no more than 750 words.” But for those who are serious about their word craft, it is not advised to get too hung up on word count.
		Flash fiction encourages a verbose writer to trust the reader so the novelist can move away from the urge to write exposition and description and move toward an urge to write prose that reveals the story through action and subtext.
		Flash fiction is suitable for blogging because of its shorter length; the reader is able to see the entire story in one computer screen without scrolling down.
	rjaneflashfiction.blogspot.com /2006/07/in-defense-of-flash-fiction.html (2037 words)

	Flash Fiction and Canadian Living
		Flash fiction is the term applied to a very short piece of creative writing.
		Flash fiction is a relatively new sub-genre of creative writing, and can be found in magazines, and more commonly in ezines.
		Fifth, as mentioned before, the successful flash fiction story will include such poetic devices such as metaphor, alliteration and novel devices such as plot twists, etc. Though by definition flash fiction is extremely short, it is not a genre that embraces incomplete storytelling.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/canadian_literature/116818 (452 words)

	Microfiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Microfiction is very short fiction, usually around 300 words long.
		Synonyms for "microfiction" include "short short story" and "flash fiction." The latter term is particularly common in the genres of science fiction and fantasy, in which there are several sub-genres of extremely short stories.
		Taken to its minimalist extreme, the micro-story turns into the nano-story, whose length is measured in a few words rather than in a few hundred words.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Microfiction (240 words)

	Flash Fiction: A Thumbnail History, by Tom Hazuka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Flash Fiction was an outgrowth of our earlier work with Robert Shapard, Jon Maney and others on Sudden Fiction and Sudden Fiction International, two well-received collections of short-short stories that used 1,500 words as a length limit.
		Flash Fiction was designed as a celebration of the latter type, tours de force of at most 750 words that somehow achieve the effect of a satisfying short story in only a page or two.
		Flash Fiction is currently in a fifth printing, and has sold over 22,000 copies.
	wwwenglish.ucdavis.edu /spark/issue3/thflash.htm (472 words)

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		A flash fiction is a short-short at the even more efficient and compressed extreme.
		Brautigan was flashing before flash fiction had a name, and he makes an interesting contrast to Merwin.
		Some of the stories in this anthology are too long to be flash fiction or even short-shorts, but a lot of fine flash fiction is written in the parable tradition that this collection examines.
	www.flash-fiction.com (2039 words)

	Flash Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Defining or stating exactly what flash fiction is would be comparable to defining or stating exactly what a poem or novel is. It just cannot be done to anyone's satisfaction.
		In general, flash fiction runs from as few as 100 words up to 1,000 or even 1,500 words (some more and some even much less).
		Flash fiction, of course, goes far beyond a mere word count.
	www.d.umn.edu /~moor0145/flashfiction.htm (416 words)

	Flash Fiction on Red Inkworks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Flashing in the Gutters: Flash fiction for the 21st Century.
		Flashshot: is a daily dose of genre (Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery and Surreal) flash fiction usually around 100 words long, sent to your email box every day.
		A good flash, replete with a cohesive plot, rich language and enticing imagery, is perhaps the hardest type of fiction to write.
	www.redinkworks.com /flash_fiction.htm (929 words)

	Flash Fiction 101
		Flash fiction is a story that has a limit of 1,000 words or less.
		Flash fiction markets and contests vary -- some are as short as 50 or 100 words, and some are 500 or 1,000.
		Flash fiction can’t be a long joke with a punchline for an ending.
	blog.whimsplace.com /index.php?blog=41 (4744 words)

	Riding the Meridian - Flashes on the Meridian
		These small flashes are also often identified by the surprising twists that take place; twists throughout the story, or stories that have a twist at the end which turns what came before on its head.
		The writers of flash fiction also have a hand in helping to refine it, define it, and extend it, and such writing is constantly reconfiguring and metamorphosing before our very eyes.
		Flash fiction is clearly a worldwide phenomenon, a mode of writing which seems particularly well-suited to our current fast-paced, often breathless lives, in which we still crave the insights good literature can bring.
	www.heelstone.com /meridian/meansarticle1.html (1888 words)

	What is flash fiction?
		Flash fiction is fiction that is quite short.
		It can be a one hundred flash fiction piece or a one thousand word novel.
		Flash fiction is supposed to be fun, and it allows writers to grow.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/8443/91879 (356 words)

	Writing Flash Fiction
		Others require under 500 words and some flash fiction is counted at 55 words, but the most popular length (and one of the most often used) is 100 words or less.
		Flash fiction usually, but not necessarily, has a twist ending--something that the reader doesn't really expect.
		Flash Fiction is a fun and exacting aspect of writing.
	www.sjoanpopek.com /writeflash.html (641 words)

	Flash Fiction: Good Things Come in Small Packages Writers Write -- The IWJ
		Flash forward thirty years, and although there are still the occasional works of massive scope: A Man in Full, Angels in America, minimalism has become the order of the day.
		Flash Fiction is a story that can be finished before one has the time to get one's backside on the chair.
		Others are more indicative of what the Flash artist needs to avoid: the flash of the con man dazzling the unwary, the flash in the pan, a lack of depth that cannot last.
	www.writerswrite.com /journal/apr02/goodstein.htm (1152 words)

	Unblock by writing flash fiction - Creativity
		Even if you’re not a writer, flash fiction can be even better than journaling for getting straight to the point of your block.
		Fiction is an ideal place to explore your feelings about behaviours that you were told were acceptable but are not, or vice versa.
		Flash fiction of no more than a page or so is great for getting straight to the point of your problem.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art41037.asp (598 words)

	Long Ridge Writers Group
		In flash fiction, we trust our reader to bring his or her own perceptions to our work to fill in the scenes, and it works!
		Most writers use surprise endings because flash fiction lends itself to such, but they are not necessary.
		There is no time in flash fiction for a lot of description, detail or much characterization.
	www.longridgewritersgroup.com /rx/tr01/s.shtml (3134 words)

	Fiction Factor - Writing Flash Fiction
		Longer than micro-fiction (10-300 words) but shorter than traditional short stories (3000-5000 words preferred by most magazines), flash fiction is usually a story of a single act, sometimes the culmination of several unwritten events.
		Like a good joke, flash fiction is often streamlined to the punch-line at the end.
		Writing flash fiction is a great way for writers to write everyday, even when larger projects seem to daunting or they are pressed for time.
	www.fictionfactor.com /guests/flashfiction.html (977 words)

	Flash Fiction 101 - How To Enter a Flash Fiction Contest
		Having just finished judging 2 flash fiction contests, I'd like to offer a few short words of wisdom for anyone who is planning on entering any flash fiction contests (or any fiction contests): Read the Guidelines.
		One of the flash fiction contests I judged was about writing a 50-word flash.
		And, if not one has told you this yet, poetry and flash fiction are not the same thing.
	blog.whimsplace.com /index.php?blog=41&title=how_to_enter_a_flash_fiction_contest&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 (496 words)

	Flash Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Though flash fiction can never replace a good short story or novel, it offers the writer the challenge to hone skills, to entertain in 200 words or less and tell a good story.
		It is a style of fiction that offers a writer a challenging exercise in minimal word usage for maximum impact.
		Here are a few 'flashes' I've written for my column 'Flash Fiction' (with the exception of 'Little Secrets' and those over the 200 word limit).
	www.poetryniche.com /flash.htm (1492 words)

	Flash Fiction Writing Workshop
		The Flash Fiction Writing Workshop (free) is for serious writers of short short pieces (beginner to more advanced, but serious).
		Serious writers with a genuine interest in sharing, learning, and working to improve their writing skills are welcome to join us.
		Flash Fiction Flash: The Newsletter for Flash Fiction Writers.
	home.att.net /~p.casto (589 words)

	Flash Fiction of G. W. Thomas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		THE FLASH FICTION OF G. I started writing micro fiction (that's flash fiction under 100 wrds.) in 1999.
		Didactic fiction is one of the bugbears of the Victorian age.
		The micro fiction writer must use the poet’s careful wording to achieve his or her effects.
	flashshot.tripod.com /examples.htm (1214 words)

	Theory : Flash Fiction
		Personally, I am of the opinion and have heard before that because of the brevity of flash fiction, one or more of the story elements are often stripped or even (gasp) missing at times.
		A flash fiction market, paying at pro rates (as you seem to be sugesting), would be a very good thing for speculative fiction.
		I really enjoy flash fiction, and though I prefer to read pieces on paper than from my monitor, a short-short is something that is fast and (hopefully :))enjoyable, and something that I can fit in at some point during my computer usage that day.
	www.speculations.com /?t=107968 (2269 words)

	Fiction Factor - Why Write Flash Fiction?
		Writing flash fiction gives you the chance to refine your attention to the finer mechanisms of a story - The parts that we, as writers, tend to forget about.
		One thing you just have to love about flash is that it's the perfect style to explore your creativity and tell stories from an extremely different, even absurd, point of view.
		Don't get me wrong, not all flash has to be absurd and end with a surprise tactic.
	www.fictionfactor.com /guests/why.html (771 words)

	Theory : Flash Fiction
		Sometimes a fiction can be shared obliquely, so that the fictional world, along with its significant concepts and events exist more in the head of the reader than they actually do in the manuscript.
		I wrote a flash piece called 'Walking Upside Down' that was sparked off by a memory of girls doing handstands when I was a kid - way back in the early 1960s.
		Flash is a complete story, with a beginning, a middle, and an end.
	www.speculations.com /?t=464442 (2164 words)

	HeavyGlow Flash Fiction @ www.ezboard.com
		A topic will be supplied at a preset time and date; writers wishing to participate will have only one hour to write and post their flash.
		This forum is available to workshop your regular flash fiction.
		This forum is for workshopping flash fiction intended for submission to HeavyGlow, the journal.
	p101.ezboard.com /bheavyglowflashfiction (414 words)

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		This site is a great resource for flash fiction, providing articles and links to markets, as well as access to a flash fiction newsgroup.
		FLASHSHOT is a daily dose of genre (Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, and Surreal) flash fiction usually around 100 words long, sent to your e-mail box every day.
		Nicely-designed, award-winning e-zine that accepts flash fiction (stories under 500 words) and serves as a resource for writers.
	www.flashwriting.com /Link.htm (455 words)

	Flash Fiction? - Absolute Write Water Cooler
		I am a non-fiction writer, but when I do dabble in fiction, it is flash fiction--under 1000 words.
		Even with flash fiction, you still have all the various genres and such to experiment with.
		I thought the abundance of flash fiction stories were literary/mainstream...
	www.absolutewrite.com /forums/showthread.php?p=166520 (560 words)

	Flash Fan Fiction
		DarkMark’s Funeral for a Flash focuses on the days after Barry Allen’s death in a multiverse that survived the Crisis, and Wally West’s first attempt to fill his mentor’s boots.
		Legends of the DCU features Legends of the Flash, focusing on a young Barry Allen and his former college professor, Eobard Thawne, who has spent his life developing his Speed Force theory.
		Ultimate Flash is based on the “Ultimate” treatment given to the Flash by Wizard Magazine in 2002.
	www.hyperborea.org /flash/fanfic.html (932 words)

	Double Room: Recommended Prose Poetry and Flash Fiction Links
		A Yahoo discussion group that brings together the various writers, editors, publishers, scholars, etc. who are currently involved in the writing, publishing, and study of prose poetry, flash fiction, and related evolving forms.
		A print journal of prose poetics dedicated to reviews, essays, discussions, emerging forms, and the publication of traditional prose poetry and experimental work that extends the conceptions of what a prose poem is or can be.
		A journal of flash fiction and prose poetry published biannually in New Orleans.
	webdelsol.com /Double_Room/issue_five/links.html (164 words)

	The IWW Prose & Flash Fiction List
		Prose-P is the workshop where Prose Poetry meets Flash Fiction (a.k.a.
		Theory discussion is also included on Prose-P. This covers those topics that will teach us all something about either flash fiction or prose poetry.
		Concepts, if you'd like to tell us what some renowned writer or journal says about either flash fiction or prose poetry, or if you want to discuss some writing concept.
	www.internetwritingworkshop.org /prose.shtml (308 words)

	Flash Fiction!
		Please note, the editing and spelling are the authors.
		The Flash fiction stories that meet a minimum quality level are of a "You send it and we post it, verbatim" variety.
		Due to time constraints we don't edit Flash Fiction.
	www.anotherealm.com /flash/ff1q01.html (48 words)

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