Flash fiction introduction

1. According to the author, how is the narrative form of the novel particularly suited to America?
2. How does Mr. Faulkner define flash fiction?
3. What is gained in “writing short”?
4. What must each line of a short short story do?
5. What do you think Mr. Faulkner means by “Such evocative, fragmentary brevity makes this Twitter and Facebook era perfect for flash fiction. Flash allows literature to be a part of our everyday life, even if we are strange multitasking creatures addled by a world that demands more, more, more”? Do you agree?

1. He says this way you better understand America’s highways, the oozing boundaries of our suburbia and the rhythms of life they induce in us.  

2. If the story is under 1,000 words it is a flash fiction

3. It makes people wonder what happened before the started and after the story ended. It makes them think rather than giving them straightly the answer. 

4. Each line of a flash story must carry a symbolic weight that moves the story forward 

5. I agree because you have to think what you write into Facebook and Twitter and because they give you limited amount of characters, you have to think how to form your sentences