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Flash Fiction

This document defines and provides examples of flash fiction. It explains that flash fiction is a very short story or narrative told in under 700 or 100 words. It conveys profound meanings and universal human emotions concisely. There are three key characteristics of flash fiction: brevity, a complete plot, and an element of surprise, often in the form of a twist ending or unexpected last line. The document provides two brief examples of flash fiction stories in under 50 words each to illustrate these characteristics.

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Flash Fiction

This document defines and provides examples of flash fiction. It explains that flash fiction is a very short story or narrative told in under 700 or 100 words. It conveys profound meanings and universal human emotions concisely. There are three key characteristics of flash fiction: brevity, a complete plot, and an element of surprise, often in the form of a twist ending or unexpected last line. The document provides two brief examples of flash fiction stories in under 50 words each to illustrate these characteristics.

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FLASH FICTION

LIterary Art (Illustrated Novel)


What is Flash Fiction?
Flash fiction is a genre of fiction, defined as a
very short story. Flash fiction is also a short form
of narrative that may be told in less than 700 or
100 words that convey deep truths and universal
human emotions in just a few paragraphs.
3 CHARACTERISTICS OF FLASH FICTION
Brevity A Complete Plot Surprise
Flash fiction compresses an
A flash fiction story is Great flash fiction often
entire story into the space
indeed a story, with a incorporates surprise,
of a few paragraphs. There
beginning, middle, and usually in the form of a
is no defined word count twist ending or an
end. This sets it apart
for flash fiction, but some unexpected last line.
from a prose poem or
commonly used word This is not a gimmick:
vignette, which can
limits in flash fiction range the aim is to prompt
explore an emotion,
from just six words on the the reader to think
memory, or thought
short end to around 1,000 deeply about the true
without a plot.
words on the longer end. meaning of the story.
FLASH FICTION
EXAMPLES

"Manila Encounters" "Manila Encounters"


Word count: 49 words Word count: 42 words
There's a blind cat that Closing up for the night, the
sleeps by the oldest campus security guard enter the
tree. If you can brave the Spoliarium room.
hissing long enough to pet "Dumating na ba ang
him, he'll lick your fingers kapayapaan?" the Roman soldier
and mark you as his own. whispers from the painting.
You are his now, under his The guard shakes his head.
protection. Lights out. The soldier strains,
Lean in close, he'll whisper pulling at the corpse that refuses
when and how you'll die to move.

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