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Flash Fiction

17 years ago

Thyrykas' post on "A Six Word Life" reminded me of this. I love short stories. True genius can be seen in some of them; and, the shorter the story the more remarkable they are. Arthur C. Clarke wrote some incredibly amazing short, short fiction as did Ray Bradbury. My favorite flash fiction of all time is Hemingway's "For sale: Baby shoes, never worn." Heartbreaking, poignant - in six words. Genius.

Our local "alternative" paper has a competition for flash fiction of 50 words or less every year. I always think about entering, then remember the Hemingway and abashedly set all such thoughts aside. lol

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lemonhead101
17 years ago
I adore flash fiction both writing it and reading it. It's a fascinating type of writing to me, and quite challenging to do. There are several anthologies out there if you're interested. I encourage you to enter the flash fiction competiton - it's rather fun trying to condense a story into such a stringent format.
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