Flash Fiction

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is imaginative literature of extreme brevity. It could range from a word to a thousand (Gacusan 2018). It is known as micro stories, postcard fiction, nanotales and short shorts.

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Flash Fiction

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Flash fiction presents the story with fewest words as possible

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Brevity

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Flash fiction emphasizes the development of plot. It has a beginning, middle and ending of the story.

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Complete Plot

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The successful hallmark of a flash fiction is its twist at the end of the story.

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Surprising Ending

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by Tara Campbell is a story of various explanations for the color of the sky

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Angels and Blueberries

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“Why is the sky blue?” you ask. Well, it all depends on who’s answering

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Angels and Blueberries

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by Hugh Behm-Steinberg tells a weird story of how anyone can order a perfectly clone of Taylor Swift at his doorstep.

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Taylor Swift

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You’re in love; it’s great, you swipe on your phone and order: the next day a Taylor Swift clone shows up at your house

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Taylor Swift

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by Tatyana Tolstaya is a story of finding an old and torn teddy bear that she adore when she was a child.

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Unnecessary Things

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This Teddy bear once had amber eyes made from special glass — each one had a pupil and an iris. The bear itself was gray and stiff, with wiry fur. I adored him.

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Unnecessary Things

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composed of 100-1000 words in length

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Flash Fiction

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consists of 1000-10, 000 words in length

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Short Story

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is significantly shorter than a novel

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Short Story

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has a well thought out plot and great
characters, but they don’t necessarily need to be fully developed
shouldn’t be more than one plot and one theme.

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Flash Fiction

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has one or a few characters and one or a few settings (limited in place and time, such as a day or a couple of
weeks) and expresses a single theme, or message.

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Short Story

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is punchy and to the point, a story of extreme brevity with the plot pared down to the core of the story. Every detail, every character gesture, every description counts; each word has its place. Take one word away and the meaning is lost.

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Flash Fiction

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generally is more flexible. There is more space to develop ideas, plot, character and theme; there is at most, one plot and a small subplot or a plot and a half.

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Short Story

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A flash fiction story is not the shortened version of a longer story; it still follows the elements of plot, including a beginning, middle and end, as well as a conflict and satisfying resolution.

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Story Structure

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Most flash fiction stories take place in one setting, as moving between locations uses up too much space. It allows the writer and reader to focus on the plot.

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Setting

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Flash fiction pieces are plot-driven and include no more than three or four characters. They may include some character development, but too much backstory can use valuable space.

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Characters and Backstory

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One may think that flash fiction stories are short on description to save space. However, a strong piece can balance vivid descriptions with a quick- moving plot. Stories that lack description are not satisfying to read, and a flash fiction piece should feel complete.

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Description

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It is the actual story and includes a beginning, a middle and an end.

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Plot

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Two Types of Plot

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Unified and Episodic

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a story that is realistic with a central character and action and the story happens in one place during a short span of time- a day, several hours or even just for an hour.

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Unified

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a story that happens in a much extended period of time. A writer who employs this plot frequently uses the technique of ‘flashback’ to lay out background details of the story.

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Episodic

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when the story transpires on a particular period of time such as an hour, a day, a week, a month or even a year.

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PLOT – a movement in time

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when the story is established on a series of casual events that happen one after another. Here, the writer is to create a story based on the principle of cause and effect that is, the first event sets off the second and the second event sets off the third and so on. Hence, every new event has a casual relationship to the old ones.

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PLOT - movement in casualty

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when the story has dialogue, action, details, descriptions and scenes that amplify the tension and persuade the reader to turn the page and continue reading. The techniques of foreshadowing, flashback and epiphany are oftentimes employed in this type of plot.

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PLOT - a movement in dramatic tension

Question 29

This is the beginning of the story, also known as the inciting incident. This is where the author introduces the characters, identifies where the story is happening, and establishes the main conflict. This includes events, actions or even decisions that build conflict, pressure or disturbance to the main character.

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Exposition

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This is also known as the plot complication where the writer fully introduces the conflict or the obstacle that will prevent the main character, the protagonist, to achieve his goal.

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Rising Action

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This part is considered as the most exciting part of a story. This part has the most tension or most exciting event compared to all other events in the story. Also, this is where important decisions are made or important things are discovered.

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Climax

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This point occurs after the climax as the problems in the story start to work themselves out. The excitement becomes less and less as the conflict is resolved.

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Falling Action

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This is the solution to the problem in a story.

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Resolution