May 18
Robert Swartwood was kind enough to let me know that I have won a copy of Sudden Fiction Latino as one of the five lucky random contestants in his annual hint fiction contest. First time I ever won anything! I like the winning entry, but you could have a look here .
The defining feature of any piece of fiction is the number of words that goes into the composition. So a conventional short story would be something between 7,000 to 9,000 words, but is often a work of fiction no longer than 20,000 words and no shorter than 1,000. The short short story are stories less than 1,000 words and are usually referred to by a variety of terms such as ‘flash fiction’ or ‘short short fiction’ or ‘short shorts.’ There is no widely accepted definition, but stories as long as 1000 words are considered to be flash fiction.
The term ‘flash fiction’ may have originated from a 1992 anthology of that title…
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