Fifty Words on Fifty Definitions of Flash
(definitions from Dictionary.com)
3. a very brief moment; instant: I’ll be back in a flash.
In life, the “in a flash” always ends up being longer than promised. In writing, flash keeps its promise of brevity and instance. It’s back before you have time to miss it, unlike the lover whom you’re waiting for, still, as the movie begins and jujubes stick to your enamel.
FlashFiction.Net has a singular mission: to prepare writers, readers, editors, and fans for the imminent rise to power of that machine of compression, that hugest of things in the tiniest of spaces: flash freakin fiction!
Coming Up: A good starting place is the index. It's the quickest way to find what you're looking for: prompts, interviews, examples, definitions, craft articles, essays, flash pieces, and the like.
Written by Matter Press's founder and managing editor Randall Brown, A Pocket Guide to Flash Fiction provides NOT the way to write flash fiction, but SOME ways to make your writing flash!