You kick me out of the house for the afternoon and tell me to call you when I feel scared about something. “You’re so calm,” you say. “I want to hear what you’re like in distress.”
A confession: what I write is always true. The concept of fiction has always escaped me—there are no characters here, no description of who they…
The strength of that phrase: its muscles, its weight. It suggests: flash fiction is a forever contender, serious and suspect with its uneven temper. It says just checking on this fierce thing, just shaking the cage.
What is the State of Flash Fiction?
At times it seems that flash fiction is a genre that lives on the borders of poetry and fiction and that it’s most at home on the digital screen instead of in print. Yet, here at NANO Fiction we acknowledge that the genre is more complex than how the form is presented, or what terms define it.