flash fiction
English edit
Noun edit
flash fiction (countable and uncountable, plural flash fictions)
- (countable) A fictional story that is briefer than typical short stories.
- Synonyms: drabble, flashfic, short short story, sudden fiction
- (uncountable) The genre of such stories.
- Synonyms: flashfic, microfiction, sudden fiction
- 1997, Ron McFarland, “Another Kind of Violence: Sherman Alexie's Poems”, in American Indian Quarterly, volume 21, number 2, page 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.