flash fiction en · NOUN
Meanings
- (countable) A fictional story that is briefer than typical short stories.
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(uncountable) The genre of such stories.
Even those stories range from short-short, "sudden," or "flash" fiction of just three to five pages to more conventionally constructed stories than run nearly twenty pages.
1997, Ron McFarland, “Another Kind of Violence: Sherman Alexie's Poems”, in American Indian Quarterly, volume 21, number 2, page 259:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| flash fictions | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Synonyms
short short story · sudden fiction · sudden fiction · flashfic · drabble · flashfic · microfiction