Not exact matches
A collection of romantic
Flash fiction stories — complete tales
told in less than a thousand words.
Flash fiction is always good practice
in order to determine the absolute minimum number of words to
tell the story, interest the reader and move the story forward.
There's not always a clear story behind my stories, particularly my
flash fiction, but «Nadine's Broken Heart» began
in my creative nonfiction classroom, after an extended collaborative exercise on the lyric essay (an exercise loosely adapted from Brenda Miller and Suzanne Paola's
Tell It Slant).
In its more mediocre forms
flash fiction can feel like a joke
told by the sort of coworker who trolls hallways looking for polite people: a pun here, an obvious twist there, everything neatly tied up by a punch - line ending.
We define
flash fiction as a short story
told in fewer than 1,000 words.
I've never read or heard a piece that was
told in this form of narrative, 10 minutes of
flash fiction the room was silenced
in awe of his use of rhetoric and narrative.
Each story
tells a complete tale
in but a few short minutes with the added promise of a lifelong introduction to new indie writers.You never know, you might just find your next favorite author.Christmas
in Love, the third anthology
in the
Flash Flood series, is a hand - picked selection of master works
in romance, science
fiction and fantasy themed for Christmas and guaranteed to keep you engaged...
The joy of
flash fiction as a writer and a reader is found not only
in the words of the story, but
in what is left out — the absences can be almost spectral, haunting what's been
told, only guessed at.
Whatever may be the length, the main purpose of
flash fiction is to
tell a story
in very fewer words as possible.
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.
When the history of
flash fiction as a vital form is
told, Best Small
Fictions and Masih will be
in the opening chapter.
Over the course of this series Nath Jones's writing style develops from the raw, associative, tyrannic rambles of cathartic non-
fiction,
flash fiction, and rant
in The War is Language and our digital domains, to the delightful rough - hewn vignettes of 2000 Deciduous Trees, into the compact characterizations of the fictionalized
tellings in Love & Darts, and finally toward How to Cherish the Grief - Stricken's fully - crafted short stories that use literary devices and narrative elements to reveal a world well - rendered.
I've written a few pieces of
flash fiction and one short story where I somehow «magically» landed on the perfect story that was finished being
told in only 3000 words — but that one was most definitely a fluke since I can't seem to be able to do it again on demand.
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?
So it is your job as a player to dig deeper into the story which
flashes back and forth, think Pulp
Fiction, where you jump back and forth
in the story, and try to find out everything that has been
told to you and why you are the way you are and who Aiden is and why he is following you.