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In the 1920s flash fiction was referred to as the "short short story" and was associated with Cosmopolitan magazine, and in the 1930s, collected in anthologies such as The American Short Short Story. [8] Somerset Maugham was a notable proponent, with his Cosmopolitans: Very Short Stories (1936) being an early collection.
Telling a story in very few words was dubbed flash fiction in 1992. The six-word limit in particular has spawned the concept of Six-Word Memoirs , [ 8 ] including a collection published in book form in 2008 by Smith Magazine , and two sequels published in 2009.
Flash prose, also known as flash literature, is brief creative writing, generally on the order of between 500 and 1500 words. It is also an umbrella term that encompasses various short format works such as prose poetry, short essays and other works of creative fiction and nonfiction. The term flash implies fast, impromptu, and short format.
"Memory" is a flash fiction short story by American horror and science fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1919 and published in June in The United Co-operative. [ 1 ] Themes
Knock" is a science fiction short story by American writer Fredric Brown. It begins with a piece of Flash fiction based on the following passage by Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Imagine all human beings swept off the face of the earth, excepting one man. Imagine this man in some vast city, New York or London.
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.
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. In terms of word count, there is no official demarcation between an anecdote, a short story, and a novel.
The story (or parts of it) was originally published as "Flash Crowd" in Three Trips in Time and Space, by Robert Silverberg, ed. "The Last Days of the Permanent Floating Riot Club" is included in the short story collection A Hole in Space; Other stories in this series are in these two books and in All the Myriad Ways.