flash fictions
flash fictions is the plural of flash fiction.
Meaning of flash fiction
Noun
flash fiction (countable and uncountable, plural flash fictions)
- A fictional story that is briefer than typical short stories.
- Synonyms:
- drabble, flashfic, short short story, sudden fiction
- 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
Questions about flash fictions
- What is flash fictions the plural of?
- Flash fictions is the plural of flash fiction.
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