Arts And Design Active Recall

• Flash fiction is a style of literature that provides a complete story within 6-1500 words
• Flash fiction


  • Characterized by its brevity
  • Focuses on conveying a complete idea in a condensed form
  • Focuses on a single moment
• Brevity


  • Shortness or conciseness of expression
  • Exact use of words in writing or speech
• Types of flash fiction

  • Sudden Fiction
  • Drabble
  • Dribble
  • Twitterature
  • Postcard Fiction
  • 6-word story
• Sudden Fiction


  Written piece with maximum of 750 words
• Sudden Fiction


  • "Likable" by Deb Olin Unferth (335 words)
  • "Curriculum" by Sejal Shah (490 words)
• Drabble


  Also referred to as "micro-fiction" and are only made out of 100 words
• Drabble


  • "Downstream" by Emily Roth
• Dribble


  • Also called minisaga
  • Flash fiction tales consist a maximum of 50 words
• Twitterature


  Flash fiction stories posted on Twitter that do not contain more than 280 characters
• Postcard Fiction


  • A story that could fit on a postcard
  • An image often accompanies the text to create the feeling of looking at a postcard
• Postcard Fiction


  • We were not a dog family...
• 1. word story


  A brief narration consisting of only six words, but provides a complete thought for the audience
• 1. word story


  • Someone wants to sell a set of baby shoes that were never used because the baby's passing
  • The expecting parents received baby shoes as a gift, however; the baby shoes aren't fit to the baby's gender that's why they have to sell it
• More examples of 6-word stories