Sentence examples for sudden fiction from inspiring English sources
noun
A fictional story that is briefer than typical short stories.
5. Read some of the selections in "Sudden Fiction: American Short-Short Stories" edited by Robert Shapard and James Thomas, a book of very short stories.
Flash fiction, which is defined as being a story under 1,000 words, goes by the names of "short shorts," "miniatures," "sudden fiction" and "postcard fiction," among many others.
(Sudden fiction checks in between one and five pages; flash is between three hundred and a thousand words; micro gets you about a hundred and fifty words; a drabble has a hundred words, a dribble fifty).
With attention spans shrinking, short stories, sudden fiction, essays and novellas are rising in popularity and a new digital pamphlet format, thus far only launched in the US is embracing this shift.
I'm thinking I'll assign Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," Tobias Wolff's "In the Garden of the North American Martyrs," and an anthology called "Sudden Fiction," because everything in it is short and it'll make writing seem possible.
In an introduction of significantly more than twenty-five wordSwartwoodood surveys the range of fiction — the familiar novel, novella, and short story, and their miniaturized, rarer cousins, "sudden fiction, flash fiction, micro fiction, drabble, dribble," all apparently real and distinct styles.
First of all, there's no coincidence in the sudden onslaught of dystopian fiction, which has affected movies and literature as well as games.
The novel, published by an independent non-profit press in the US, received critical praise, but Lerner's sudden transition to prose fiction worried some of his fellow poets.
All of a sudden, the future of science fiction film-making looks bright.
All of a sudden the gap between the fiction of the führer and the real-life Hitler was all too apparent.
JG Ballard said of another Simak story (The Spaceman's Van Gogh) that it was an excellent example of how "the unique fusion of ideas present in science-fiction can produce a sudden illumination of the commonplace".
