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Hello, bloggers, writers and my Flash Fiction Fanatics. You know the Old Soldier sometimes gets so involved trying to make money as an online writer that he forgets about his own blog. Well, not really forget about but certainly spends more time here: Triond, than he does at his own blog, the most dynamic flash fiction publication on the internet.
This morning I published an article on Triond. It included a micro-story. I don’t know how many words it is. I’m publishing it in this post. You can count the words; but it is very, very short. One of the shortest stories I have ever written.
Still, it is not a sketch or a vignette, but a complete short story. A flash fiction story is a significant event with closure.
The significant event in this story is one of the more difficult kinds of stories to write. It is an epiphany (realization) story; but it is the reader who has the epiphany. And the epiphany is, the reader realizes what kind of marriage this man and woman have.
The story is so short that I do not want to give anything away by giving it a title.
What else do I want to say in this post?
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He lay naked under the sheet. She stood naked in front of the long mirror, turning this way and that way looking at her reflection.
He said, Did you have an orgasm?
Couldn’t you tell?
Men can’t always tell when a woman has an orgasm.
Honey, am I getting fat?
I think your breasts are larger.
Still looking at her reflection she laughed and said, You’re a wonderful husband.
He said, And smart, too.
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Things You Should Know About Writing Flash Fiction
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Did you know that a sketch or vignette is not a flash fiction story? A sketch and vignette have no significant event.
Did you know that the best flash fiction is really two short stories in one? One story takes place on the page and the other takes place in the imagination of the reader. The story on the page is always smaller than the story in the imagination of the reader. That’s why a flash fiction story of a few hundred words can say so much.
Did you know that in the best flash fiction the introduction is kept short so that the characters can begin acting out the story right away? The less time the writer spends trying to explain why the better.
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