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Flash fiction has roots going back to prehistory, recorded at origin of writing, including fables and parables, notably Aesop's Fables in the west, and Panchatantra and Jataka tales in India. Later examples include the tales of Nasreddin , and Zen koans such as The Gateless Gate .
The term flash implies fast, impromptu, and short format. The term flash prose is generally used in the context of writing competitions or other public exhibitions of creativity or skill with language such as weblogs or non-journalistic writing in, for example, a daily, a journal or another type of periodical.
It is a combination of three concepts, first science-fiction prototyping (a methodology based on writing fictional stories to instantiate and test ideas for new products, businesses or political systems), [2] second flash fiction (a genre that advocates writing stories as small as just 6 words) and finally, Twitter and texting (messaging and ...
In terms of length, word count is typically anywhere from 1,000 to 4,000 for short stories; however, some works classified as short stories have up to 15,000 words. Stories of fewer than 1,000 words are sometimes referred to as "short short stories", or "flash fiction". [11] Short stories have no set length.
Flash Me Magazine is a defunct online magazine devoted to publishing flash fiction stories. Its last issue was in October 2010. It was a quarterly publication by Winged Halo Productions. [1] [2] It was a paying market, accepting all genres of fiction under 1,000 words. Issues were published on January 31, April 30, July 31, and October 31.
El emigrante" (The migrant) is a flash fiction story by Mexican writer Luis Felipe Lomelí, published in 2005. It is one of the best-known and most widely cited examples of the genre in Spanish. It is one of the best-known and most widely cited examples of the genre in Spanish.
is a six-word story, and one of the most famous examples of flash fiction. Versions of the story date back to the early 1900s, and it was being reproduced and expanded upon within a few years of its initial publication. [1] [2]
El dinosaurio (The dinosaur) is a flash fiction written by the Honduras-born Guatemalan writer Augusto Monterroso, published as a part of the book Obras completas (y otros cuentos), in 1959. It is considered one of the shortest stories in Spanish, [1] and its whole text is the following: Cuando despertó, el dinosaurio todavía estaba allí.