Flash fiction as described on wikipedia is "fiction of extreme brevity." Most often this type of fiction has 500 - 750 words, though some goes as low as 300 or as high as 1000.
Again from wikipedia, "Flash fiction differs from a vignette in that the flash-fiction work contains the classic story elements: protagonist, conflict, obstacles or complications, and resolution. However, unlike the case with a traditional short story, the limited word length often forces some of these elements to remain unwritten, that is, hinted at or implied in the written storyline. This principle, taken to the extreme, is illustrated in a possibly apocryphal story about a six-word flash allegedly penned by Ernest Hemingway: "For sale: baby shoes, never worn."
The post that follows is my first attempt at flash fiction. I will continue to play with this type of fiction as it is well-suited to the blog media.
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