flash fiction

Noun

flash fiction (countable and uncountable, plural flash fictions)

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

   Synonyms:

   drabble, flashfic, short short story, sudden fiction

2. (uncountable) The genre of such stories.
   • 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.1997, Ron McFarland, “Another Kind of Violence: Sherman Alexie's Poems”, in American Indian Quarterly, volume 21, number 2, page 259

   Synonyms:

   flashfic, microfiction, sudden fiction