flashfic

noun — 2 senses

flashfic

noun

Etymology From flash + fic, from flash fiction.

1

Lifestyle Slang Flash fiction.

  • I will throw down the gauntlet to other flash authors (or anyone else)... Write a piece of flashfic that's a palindrome (reading by paragraphs, that is). I'll see if I can whip out another one as well...2002 November 14, Scipio [username], “{ASSD} Something I wrote, along those lines. Was (Re: {ASSM} Lipogram of S-E-X...)”, in alt.sex.stories.d (Usenet):
  • Anti-illusionist metalepsis is acceptable under certain circumstances, however, as we can see in the NCIS and Due South flashfic self-insertion challenges (malnpudl 2007; china_shop 2008).2011, Tisha Turk, “Metalepsis in Fan Videos and Fan Fiction”, in Karin Kukkonen, Sonja Klimek, editors, Metalepsis in Popular Culture, De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 98:
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  • I'm not even sure if it qualifies as a FlasFic^([sic]) but like most good flashfic it relies for its success on the readers^([sic]) existing background knowledge to place it within a larger framework.2011 March 16, Kirok of L'Stok [username], “Re: NEW TNG: Carpe Diem, P/C and others (1/1), G-rated”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet):
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Lifestyle Slang An individual work of flash fiction, especially a fanfic.

  • (Though, not to nit pick^([sic]) but it isn't a drabble; they're 100 words, excluding title; this is a short fic, flashfic, ficlet...whatever<g>)2003 November 16, Jane Davitt, “Re: Drabble: Forever After”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative (Usenet):
  • This feels like a flashfic, one of those teensy-weensy short stories that leaves you gasping in just five or six sentences.2006, L. D. Beghol, Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs: A Field Guide, Continuum (2006), page 103
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  • According to a fanfiction tale's length, we can find the drabble (text up to 110 words), the flashfic (between 111 and 500 words) and the one piece, or one shot (more than 500 words).2011, Max Giovagnoli, Transmedia Storytelling: Imagery, Shapes and Techniques, ETC Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 84:
Synonyms
flash fiction, microfiction, sudden fiction, drabble, short short story, spamfic

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