I can admit to hearing echoes of prose
poetry in some flash fiction, but it would never occur to me to consider the two genres other than separately.
First of all, tell us briefly if people are
interested in your flash fiction or short stories and your writing, where can people find you and your books online and your blog?
Her work
appears in Flash Fiction Magazine, FlashFlood, Minola Review, Dying Dahlia Review, The Ham Free Press, The Hungry Chimera, and elsewhere and has been exhibited at Hudson Guild Gallery and San Juan Capistrano Library.
As I mentioned, I've also started a crime / humor novel about a husband and wife team of thieves named Bernard and Melody Earls who I first introduced as a joke
in a flash fiction story.
That's about 50 pages into a novel, 25 for a novella, two pages (one scene) for a short story, two paragraphs for a short - short, and about two
sentences in flash fiction.
I've never written one but have done flash memoir pieces or vignettes and played around a lot with reality by using what I
learned in flash fiction to write engaging scenes.
So, in honor of Valentine's Day, birthday celebrations, new jobs, and a very productive start to 2015, let me share with you a flash fiction romance from my SPUN YARNS collection, Love In a Flash
The short story elements such as plot, dialogues, characterization, narrative, atmosphere, scene setting are also
present in flash fiction; having said that flash fiction may not include every elements of short story (character development, plot, atmosphere, clear beginning, middle, ending etc..)
When I first read it eight years ago, not only did it further stir my then - budding
interest in flash fiction, but it also sparked teaching ideas for my high school creative writing classes.
Her work was also nominated for a Pushcart Award and she has taught several popular online
courses in flash fiction (and in haibun).
But you get the idea:
in flash fiction, less is more.
The editors of Fiction Southeast are interested
in flash fiction (fiction of approximately 1000 words or less), particularly from writers born and raised in the south.
Please see guidelines below: The editors of Fiction Southeast are interested
in flash fiction (fiction of...
In flash fiction that one scene may actually be your entire story (and note that a single scene does NOT a flash make unless it has some larger significance or resonance beyond the confines of that scene).
RV: I think there is a bending of «rules»
in flash fiction, and it's a fine line between what works and what might fail.
The editors of Fiction Southeast are interested
in flash fiction (fiction of approximately 1000 words or less).