13 Metaphors for Flash Fiction
There are many ways to describe these gems, these shards, these bonbons of stories.
4 min readMar 6, 2019
Of all of the forms of fiction, “flash fiction” is the only one described with a metaphor.
As James Thomas, the editor of several seminal anthologies of flash fiction, tells the story, he was talking with his wife about what to call these short…