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Flash Extravaganza Day 3: Pop-Up Prompt from Mary G.!
Playing with metaphor!
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Flash Extravaganza Day 2: A "truing of vision"
the beauty of flash
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Flash Extravaganza Day 1: Our First Pop-Up Prompt from Tommy Dean!
A Dialogue Prompt
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Fire up your pens / keyboards: The Flash Immersion Extravaganza begins tomorrow!
Prepare to be creative!
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Why I Teach It: Seven Masterful Flashes (and One Poem) I Love and Share
Plus, a cool announcement from Matchbook Lit!
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"Frisson": The Aesthetic Chills We Get from Great Art
what it feels like to be alive
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Kindness: As Practice & Theme for the Flash Fiction Writer
Illustration from a 1587 treatise on comets and meteors, created anonymously in Flanders (now northern France) and known as the Kometenbuch. More in a…
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May 2025

Making Art as Act of Rebellion & Protest
“Collective Nouns for Humans in the Wild,” diagrammed by the AP English Lit students of David Berger at Land O’ Lakes High School, Florida resembles…
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Sparking Creativity: See Inside for The Art of Flash Immersion Extravaganza Dates & Deets!
Plus, as always, a fun writing prompt!
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On Beauty, Concision, and Deep Surprise
Silver Falls State Park, Oregon
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Pay Attention: The Use of Second Person in Flash Fiction
From the archive: April, 2021
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April 2025

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