My writing partner and I started this flash fiction collection together because we both love the compression and precision of very short forms, but we keep disagreeing about what counts as a complete story versus a vignette or prose poem. Every piece we review becomes a debate about whether 200 words can actually contain a full arc, and I'm starting to think we have fundamentally different relationships to brevity itself.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two collaborators discover their aesthetic philosophies about narrative completeness are incompatible at the most fundamental level.
“Where Are You with Short fiction and the short form?”
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