Fifty Words on Fifty Definitions of Flash
(definitions from Dictionary.com)
36. Building Trades. to protect from leakage with flashing.
The compressed container of flash makes sure that not even a
single word can leak out without changing everything. Or so the myth of flash
persists. Write as many words as you can until one stops mattering.
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!