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Flash Fiction @ Flash Fiction Chronicles: Six Things Your Flash Desires

Today, I’m a proud guest of Gay Degani and Flash Fiction Chronicles as I put FLASH FICTION under the harsh glare of the interrogation lamp and figure out what FLASH FICTION desires. Here’s an excerpt:

So, yes, flash texts yearn, and I wonder, perhaps too much, what they desire and from whom they want it. What does the flash text crave from its characters, its readers, its writers? These text whisperers, the ones who hear things in my texts, would have me believe that the flash text wants to be something other than it is. I doubt it. I’m certain of the flash’s desire to be what it is, but what other yearnings burn inside that flash?

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