Flash Fiction
FLASH A.K.A VERY SHORT By Jeremy Leariwala Growing up as a reader of the novel, I loved to plough through acres of words, flipping over pages and tracing the story scene after scene. Packing a Tom Clancy or an Andy McNab novel in a day-sack and stroll down to the riverside always felt good. I learnt of flash fiction, just the other day! During the Corona Virus lock-down, surfing the internet was one of the activities that filled the vacuum. The internet became the window and avenue to see what the neighborhood held. And so, through it, I explored the world of fiction writing. Talk of the Comic novel writing, the short film screenwriting or the short-short story writing. I dug deeper into the flash fiction story. Now to cut long story short, the flash fiction story is a complete story that is about 75 words long! That is all the elements of good story telling employed in 75 words only. How on earth could I tell a whole story in such few words? It is not ea...