Fifty Words on Fifty Definitions of Flash
(definitions from Dictionary.com)
30.
to communicate instantaneously, as by radio or telegraph.
Instantaneous is a cool word to associate with
flash. So is telegraph. Imagine someone communicating with something outdated or odd. Imagine
that someone is you; imagine the odd thing is your flash fiction.
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!