Text due on Monday, October 10. Upload to Populi no later than 9:00 am. Group Critique.
Zine making and reading on Wednesday, October 12.
What is "Flash Fiction"? The quick answer is the obvious one. Like a flash, it happens fast and it's over soon. Flash Fiction is hyper-condensed storytelling. There is no absolute rule for how long a flash fiction story can be before it's just a really short short story. On the two links below you can read a vast selection of contemporary flash fiction.
You will be writing your own original flash fiction story, and you'll have to respect these three constraints:
1. Your story must begin with this precise line: "I knew when I opened my eyes that today was not going to be a normal day."
2. Your story must be exactly 500 words. Your first sentence (see above) contains 17 words. This means that your story will consist of an additional 483 words. Please remember what the word "exactly" means. Your title doesn't count in the 500.
3. Your story must take place in Delaware in the fall of 2022. In other words, here and now.
Please don't limit yourself to the flash fiction stories on this list. This selection represents a puddle in the sea of flash fiction. Search online. Here is another list that's pretty great. You can also limit your search: "flash fiction 2022", "art flash fiction", etc. You will find more flash fiction than you can humanly read. It's everywhere.
Here's one of my favorites from the Bookriot list: "War of the Clowns"
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