sudden fiction

English

Noun

sudden fiction (countable and uncountable, plural sudden fictions)

1. (countable) A fictional story that is briefer than typical short stories.
2. (uncountable) The genre of such stories.

Synonyms

• (individual story): drabble, flash fiction, flashfic, short short story
• (genre): flash fiction, flashfic, microfiction

References

• Sudden Fiction: American Short-Short Stories. Robert Shapard and James Thomas eds. Peregrine Smith, 1986, 263 pages, →ISBN.