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Flash!  Quick fiction is spreading It comes in drabbles and dribbles.  Ernest Hemingway perfected it.  Hundreds of publications are devoted to it.  And one young man in Indiana wears his on the back of...

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Flash of genius part 2:                            Short attention span theory It can’t all be blamed on Google, but our attention spans are getting shorter. What was I talking about? Oh yeah....

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How long is it and what do you call it? Essentially, flash fiction is a short story.  A very short story.  But writers, editors and publishers seem to have different ideas about how many words...

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How long is it? Part 2 A short story, by any other name, would still be short.  But would it be flash fiction?  Last time, we looked at the myriad names for flash fiction.  Now we turn to the requisite...

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Faulkner’s fresh look at flash fiction Everyone has his or her idea of what constitutes flash fiction.  I’ve noted this before.  Defining flash fiction by word length seems the easy way to do it....

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Faulkner’s ‘Fissures’ filled with strange moments

Fissures Grant Faulkner Press 53    2015 122 pages Trade paper $14.95 “We all carry so many strange little moments within us,” author Grant Faulkner says in the introduction to his new book of one...

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A new mystery book—sort of     

Cops, Crooks & Other Stories in 100 Words was published more than seven years ago—about the time I started this website—and I decided to take another look at the book.  The result of this look is a...

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Flash fiction: 100 words of crime

It’s been a long time since I’ve written about flash fiction here. I’m reminded because my local writer’s organization, High Sierra Writers, asked me to judge its annual flash fiction contest. This...

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