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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"flash fiction"”.
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The Secret Mantra: Poems, Flash Fiction & Short Stories
Poetry and short stories
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The Assorted Losers
Short and flash fiction.
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Helping the Shoe to Fit
… fit </em>is a collection of short stories and “flash fiction.” This collection explores animal perspectives, the medieval period, mythology, and family dynamics. Poetic devices within these stories put the reader into a position where they must interact with sound and language in the ways that …
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Minicontos: uma prática de letramento emergente na escola
Like numerous other mini ficçion genres, the Flash fiction is configured as a concise and brief genre, but it can still preserve some elements of the traditional tale, such as: narrator, space-temporal unit, characters and plot. For some authors, the emergence of this genre is strictly connected to …
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Something that Hasn't Happened Yet
… the form of poetry itself as well as creative nonfiction, recipes, and flash fiction as well. It is an attempt to assemble meaning through humor and the process of writing itself.
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Quiet Game And Other Stories
This collection of short fiction ranges in length from the flash fiction form to the more traditional full-length short story. While the characters and settings vary from piece to piece, the tales in this collection largely represent the so-called "dangerous" vein of fiction, a convention that …
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Secure the Shadow
… the Shadow is a collection of short-shorts and flash fiction, which draws heavily on the conventions of fables, parables and fairy tales to consider modern themes, desires and cruelties. The collection is linked by a meta-fictional fascination with the act of storytelling -- the liminal …
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WALKING IN WAVES
… of a story collection, the majority of which are flash fiction pieces. The thesis consists of two sections. The first section, “Walking in Waves,” is composed of stories about familial relationships and the balancing act of motherhood. Some of these stories play with unique formats or degrees of …
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The Burning of Restoran and Other Stories
… “Facts about Octopuses,” and “Wait,” are short fiction or “flash fiction.” These stories tie together in theme; they are linked by the common theme of trauma. The making of this collection was heavily influenced by the format of fairy tales and folktales in Eastern Europe.</p>
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The Real Thing
… short stories, nineteen of which work in a flash fiction form.</p> <p>Magical in its motions, and charming in its spirit, <em>The Real Thing</em> explores life’s losses and gains through the lens of the strange and at times the absurd. It invites its readers to cast away expectation, sit …
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What We Understand to Be Ghosts
… Poetics through the practice of writing short fiction. The stories collected in the thesis explore these ideas by taking advantage of different approaches to narrative form and content and exploring current trends in literary fiction including fabulism, flash-fiction, and non-narrative fiction. …
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Wildlife: Stories
<p><em>Wildlife: Stories </em>is a flash fiction collection written with many influences from contemporary postmodern and fabulist writers. The collection is broken up into two projects, <em>Brothers Monsters</em> and <em>The Condition of Marjorie’s Feet</em>. The first project is a novella written …
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Tiny Ruins: Short Prose Works
… a collection of short prose works consisting of flash fiction, prose poetry, and vignettes. The collection examines the everyday experiences of being an urban millennial, including current electronic methods of communication, such as Twitter and text messaging. Short prose forms proved conducive …
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How We Know Them
This multi-genre collection—including fiction, flash fiction, and a play—explores the roots of connection implied in familial relationships and structures. These works question—sometimes stepping into the supernatural to do so—how family relationships and structures can thrive despite hardship and …
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Black & Boring
<p>This collection of poetry and flash fiction was written when I was 24 years old. It was inspired heavily by the two years I spent living in Southgate — a blue collar suburb of Detroit — before moving to Chicago to complete my second year of grad school at DePaul. Most of my time in Southgate was …
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How to Keep the Girls Inside
<p>The following novella is a collection of flash fiction-length stories, connected by the voice of a single female narrator and expressed in vignette-style. The novella is divided into three parts, each consecutive section loosely following the narrator’s growth in age and maturity over a …
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A GUIDEWAY THROUGH THE LAND OF GHOSTS AND OTHER STORIES
… consists of three novella-length pieces of fiction and one flash-fiction interlude all set in the same universe. The form is largely inspired by a Chinese classic called <em>Shan Hai Jing,</em> or as scholar Richard E. Strassberg translates the title, <em>Guideways Through Mountains and …
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Calamity Sample: Stories About The Weatherman
… Sample</em> is a novella written in flash fiction, micro stories, & lyrical echoes, centering on the life of a sensitive meteorologist & weather broadcaster who attempts to continue an ordinary existence in a world ravaged by climatically-based apocalypse. The Weatherman, only …
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A Collection of Prose
… the program. It explores the various styles of fictional storytelling, exploring themes of connecting with oneself and others and what it means to be seen in the world. The flash fiction pieces invite readers to embark on a journey of self-discovery, offer unique insights into the human …
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"Everything Beautiful is Far Away": (Collected Short Stories): Embedded Autobiography, Estrangement and the (Re)discovery of Self in Contemporary Short Fiction
… practice within the field of contemporary short fiction and theories of autobiography. The collection Everything Beautiful is Far Away is made up of eleven stories that experiment with a variety of forms, from rhyming flash fiction to the novella, and fairy tale to psychotherapy, and as a …
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