"Let me tell you about the mailman, not the one who brings letters. They never come anymore since the Explosion. No, this is the mailman who delivers thoughts. The one who is tracking my movements and I am tracking his.
Yes, I have hope. That is what the mailman brings. His mail like an electrical pulse proclaiming life through my synapses. (...)"
Author Marc Nash discusses what makes flash fiction such a unique form of story telling and reads a short anti-lipo tale
Presentation by Lou Rera (Buffalo State College) for the 2010 NMC Symposium on New Media & Learning (March, 2010,http://www.nmc.org/2010-nml-symposium)
Flash fiction is fiction of extreme brevity. There is no widely accepted length of a flash fiction story. Some stories can be as few as six-words, as in Ernest Hemingway's famous: "For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn." A 1,000 word story is often viewed as the maximum. A demonstration and sample of original flash fiction will be incorporated in the digital story telling experience using a multimedia approach. The focus will be to discuss the problems and most effective solutions in creating and presenting digital narratives.
http://www.nmc.org/preso/7665
Video by HVXSilverstar http://www.youtube.com/user/HVXSilverstar
Confused about Second Life Time (SLT)? Hope this will help:
3am SLT = 11am London / 12 Noon Paris / 1pm Helsinki / 2pm Moscow / 3:30pm Mumbai/ 5pm Jakarta / 6pm Hong Kong / 7pm Tokyo / 8pm Sydney
Since January 2002, for just ten dollars U.S. a year (twelve Canadian, ten euro, or six pounds sterling) subscribers have been receiving short-short stories by Bruce Holland Rogers in their email boxes. Most of these readers must like what they're getting, since the majority renew. Stories go out three times a month, and they are an unpredictable mix of literary fiction, science fiction, fairy tales, mysteries, and work that is hard to classify.
Thirty-six stories for ten dollars. That's about twenty-eight cents a story.
Subscription stories are between 200 and 2,500 words long (with rare exceptions). Most of the stories distributed so far have been between 500 and 1500 words. Bruce's ideal is to send a story that readers can enjoy in a minute or two.
The stories arrive as unformatted e-mail text, which makes it easy to read them on a variety of devices. Paying subscribers are allowed to forward stories to other readers (although distribution by those recipients is prohibited...unless they subscribe).
After a story has been seen by my subscribers, it still can’t be found by any member of the public who wants to see it. There’s no publication of record. So has it been published? Most magazines and anthology editors have said no, my e-mailed stories are not yet published, and those editors are willing to consider the e-mailed stories for more traditional publication. I credit such publication as “first time in print.” So I’m paid twice.
Founded in 2006 by Kirby Johnson and Jennifer Eberhardt, NANO Fiction (Print ISSN 1935-844X; Digital ISSN 2160-939X) is a bi-annual publication with issues appearing in the spring and fall that seeks to cultivate the genre of flash fiction.
