‘Frame Your Flash, Don’t Fence It In’ Over at FFC

A nother little essay of mine on flash fiction was just posted over at Flash Fiction Chronicles today, ‘ Frame Your Flash, Don’t Fence It In .’ It’s about the world outside the story, the world beyond the ‘frame’ of the piece — and in the case of flash fiction that is a very small frame indeed, under 1,000 words. This world outside — sometimes existing in a writer’s notes, sometimes the object of pure, spontaneous bluffing on the part of the writer, is one of the things that gives fiction a sens