flash fiction
English
Noun
flash fiction (countable and uncountable, plural flash fictions)
- (countable) A fictional story that is briefer than typical short stories.
- (uncountable) The genre of such stories.
Quotations
- 1997, Ron McFarland, "Another Kind of Violence: Sherman Alexie's Poems," American Indian Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 2, p. 259.
- 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.
Synonyms
- (individual story): drabble, flashfic, short short story, sudden fiction
- (genre): flashfic, microfiction, sudden fiction