Sentences with phrase «last flash fiction story»

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Speaking of hearts, there's one last reward of reviewing that I'd like to mention: that as an author myself, I know how heartwarming it is to receive an enthusiastic review for my own work, and the arrival of not one but two glowing reviews for my latest book, the collection of very short stories (aka flash fiction) has made my week already — and it's still only Tuesday.

COMING UP SHORT Dear Author Enabler, Within the last three months, I've written about 40 short stories (flash fiction — less than 1,000 words).

Like Hitchcock's mantra that films can not exceed the holding time of the average filmgoer's bladder or Poe's insistence that the short story last not one more floor - board thudding heartbeat beyond the average reader's notion of a «sitting» (whatever that is), flash fiction has been hastily defined in terms of its least vital statistic — not what it does, or what it says, but what it looks like.

Since last September, we've published flash fiction stories almost every Wednesday.

Don't forget the term «flash fiction» has only recently, in the last 25 years, given legitimacy to the form — until then all these stories were «marooned in a wasteland» as Susan Sontag would say, forced to compete with much different stories.