Fifty Words on Fifty Definitions of Flash
(definitions from Dictionary.com)
47. [Origin: 1350–1400; ME flasshen to sprinkle, splash, earlier
flask(i) en; prob. phonesthemic in orig. ; cf. similar expressive words with
fl– and -sh]
Out of “flask” comes flash. What unexpected thing might someone by
carrying around right now in a flask? Write that flash, using sprinkle and splash somewhere in the
piece.
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!
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