Fifty Words on Fifty Definitions of Flash
(definitions from Dictionary.com)
17. to break forth into sudden flame or light, esp. transiently or
intermittently.
Sudden fiction is one name flash fiction goes by. That idea of
transience and intermittence seems part of flash’s identity. Why not use flash to
capture something that, like itself, goes for one bright burst rather than a
steady dim glow.
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!