What do you call writing that’s neither fact nor fiction, and over in a flash? Flash faction, of course!
Ehm, well … whatever the terminology (microfiction, sudden fiction, prose poetry), it’s a genre or set of genres I’ve tinkered with on and off over the years.
My 2005 Imaginary Cities: PC Bangs project was essentially 40-odd flash fiction pieces written and set in Korean gaming rooms.
At the time I didn’t think much of the format, which was in any case an accidental result of the stream-of-consciousness method I used to compose the pieces. Ain’t no time for paragraph breaks!
In 2006–07, I also wrote a lot of shorter prose pieces, most of which have never been published or collected elsewhere. I’ve freshened up the formatting on these posts, and included them in a new ‘Flash’ category.
Fast forward to 2021, and I’ve set myself the challenge of writing a few new pieces of flash fiction. Let’s see how far I get this time around.
