Fifty Words on Fifty Definitions of Flash
(definitions from Dictionary.com)
26. Archaic. to make a flash or sudden display.
How do we get our flashes to flash? I don’t think it’s necessarily
by showing off our writing-brilliance. I think it has something do with the
subtle surprise, the light found not at the end of the tunnel necessarily but
where no one else was looking.
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