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flashfic

flashfic noun: flash fiction.

Noun

flashfic (countable and uncountable, plural flashfics)

  1. (slang, uncountable) Flash fiction.
    • I will throw down the gauntlet to other flash authors (or anyone else)... Write a piece of flashfic that's a palindrome (reading by paragraphs, that is). I'll see if I can whip out another one as well...2002 November 14, Scipio [username], “{ASSD} Something I wrote, along those lines. Was (Re: {ASSM} Lipogram of S-E-X...)”, in alt.sex.stories.d (Usenet)
    • Anti-illusionist metalepsis is acceptable under certain circumstances, however, as we can see in the NCIS and Due South flashfic self-insertion challenges (malnpudl 2007; china_shop 2008).2011, Tisha Turk, “Metalepsis in Fan Videos and Fan Fiction”, in Karin Kukkonen, Sonja Klimek, editors, Metalepsis in Popular Culture, De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 98
  2. (countable, slang) An individual work of flash fiction, especially a fanfic.
    • (Though, not to nit pick^([sic]) but it isn't a drabble; they're 100 words, excluding title; this is a short fic, flashfic, ficlet...whatever<g>)2003 November 16, Jane Davitt, “Re: Drabble: Forever After”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative (Usenet)
    • This feels like a flashfic, one of those teensy-weensy short stories that leaves you gasping in just five or six sentences.2006, L. D. Beghol, Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs: A Field Guide, Continuum (2006), page 103

Examples of flashfic in a sentence

  • I'm not even sure if it qualifies as a FlasFic^([sic]) but like most good flashfic it relies for its success on the readers^([sic]) existing background knowledge to place it within a larger framework.2011 March 16, Kirok of L'Stok [username], “Re: NEW TNG: Carpe Diem, P/C and others (1/1), G-rated”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet):
  • According to a fanfiction tale's length, we can find the drabble (text up to 110 words), the flashfic (between 111 and 500 words) and the one piece, or one shot (more than 500 words).2011, Max Giovagnoli, Transmedia Storytelling: Imagery, Shapes and Techniques, ETC Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 84:

Synonyms of flashfic

Forms of flashfic

pluralflashfics

Origin of flashfic

From flash + fic, from flash fiction.

Questions about flashfic

What does flashfic mean?
Flashfic means flash fiction.
How do you use flashfic in a sentence?
I'm not even sure if it qualifies as a FlasFic^([sic]) but like most good flashfic it relies for its success on the readers^([sic]) existing background knowledge to place it within a larger framework.
What part of speech is flashfic?
Flashfic is a noun.
What is the plural of flashfic?
The plural of flashfic is flashfics.

Words near flashfic in the dictionary

  1. flashes over
  2. flashes the ash
  3. flashes the cash
  4. flashes up
  5. flashest
  6. flashfic
  7. flashfics
  8. flashfire
  9. flashfires
  10. flashflood
  11. flashfloods

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