NUNUM - Blending Flash Fiction & Art

Raising the Stakes in Flash Fiction by Melanie Faith

​My writing students are on  their last week of the semester. Usually, this would be cause for great celebration, but it so happens that in this last week the university requires a final project that is the culmination of our entire course. The projects are generally 10-12 pages long and worth many more points than their weekly papers. My students are busy applying all of the reading, research, discussions, and suggestions from their practice (read: homework exercises) from the past ten weeks, so understandably I’ve been answering many messages filled with questions and concerns.

Raising the Stakes in Flash Fiction by Melanie Faith

NUNUM - Blending Flash Fiction & Art

Flash Fiction - Belle of the Ball

Flash fiction is the belle of the  ball, the flavour of the moment, the soup of the day and apparently well on its way to mainstream acceptance as a separate and unique form of writing. Recent articles in mainstream publications like O Magazine and MacLean’s had articles and pieces of flash as well, most literary journals now have separate submission categories for flash submissions and there are more and more flash only journals out there now.

NUNUM - Blending Flash Fiction & Art

So What If You Don't Get Anywhere In A Flash
​by Amie E. Reilly

A story has no beginning or end; arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead. -Graham Greene, The End of the Affair (1951) ​

I was cleaning a winter's worth of debris from the garden

NUNUM - Blending Flash Fiction & Art

Nuts & Bolts Behind the NUNUM Aesthetic: Part 11

The End

The idea of plot or the story itself was mentioned several times previously but never expanded on too much but it is a part of flash fiction just as it is in other forms of fiction. Returning to the example of the man in the airport,  ​“An inattentive, transient jackass says, – “Check it” – high-pitched, estrogenic sound awkwardly steam from thick, too-big lips covering precarious tan teeth. Mirrored sunglasses sterilize eyes plunging transgressor back to fatigued, faded skin, unkempt hair – a mind of questions, comments, demands, justifications – stayed verbally, exposed physically – “Is there a problem?” Pigments, parchments, binding,