Not exact matches
But until only a little while
before that, I hadn't heard of
flash fiction or micro-
fiction or sudden
fiction or short - short
stories.
I'd experimented with different kinds of
stories, done some prose and those other «rhyme - y kind» of poems, and for a period of time even tried to write as short a
story as possible... and this was
before anything called «
flash fiction.»
Before penning her first novel, L.M. Stull found her voice and style by crafting a variety of short
stories, poems, and
flash fiction.
But the answer lies in the driving force of a piece: prose poetry and vignettes are driven by imagery and emotion whereas
flash fiction has an almost desperate need to tell a
story before it's too late.