I’ve been working mainly on novels for a while now, so the 700-word flash piece I wrote this morning was the first short story this year.
What I like about flash is that the whole story can come to you in, well, a flash, almost; that you can figure out the whole thing when you’re just about to fall asleep, which is what I did last night.
It’s called “Change the World,” but, in keeping with the 700-word length, the scope of the change is quite narrow.
Stephen King once said a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger. I wonder what he thinks a flash story is, then?
And if Stephen King flashed a stranger in the dark, how could you tell?
Amy Knepper, PERFECT
I really like writing flash, but I think I spend a lot more brain cycles per word than I do with longer pieces.