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Cathryn Grant

Suburban Noir

Cocktail Fiction

Flash Fiction for the Cocktail Hour
Photograph © 2009 Lydia Schufreider

Flash Fiction by Cathryn Grant

I love short fiction - a quick jolt to the senses, that's why my fiction blog is titled Flash Fiction for the Cocktail Hour.

My flash fiction has also appeared in Every Day Fiction:
The Festering Wound - June 3, 2010
A Christmas Package - December 25, 2009
So Lucky - September 25, 2009

Writing Under Pressure guest post - flash fiction - Non-violent Crime - June 2, 2010

Flash fiction is extremely short fiction.
The generally-accepted length of a flash fiction piece is between one and two pages. Typically, a short-short story is about two to five pages in length, and a traditional short story is approximately five to fifteen pages, occasionally more.

I'm interested in Flash Fiction because I admire the ability to be concise, and we all recognize the shortening of attention spans evolving from Twitter, TV and TMI (too much information). Yes, I recognize the irony that I'm contributing to the glut of words.

Here's another sample of FF.