flash fiction

English

Noun

flash fiction (countable and uncountable, plural flash fictions)

1. (countable) A fictional story that is briefer than typical short stories.
2. (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