Interview with Mark Budman editor of Vestal Review at The Short Story:
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Hi Mark, thank you for speaking to TSS.
My pleasure. Thank you for giving me this opportunity.
Let’s jump right in and ask what it is you love about Flash Fiction?
People cite brevity as a main attribute of flash fiction. On the surface, it’s the most visible attribute, but to wit, it’s not its soul. Brevity alone is never enough. Otherwise “I want sex” or “Let’s eat” would be shining examples of flash fiction. So what I love about it, is its contradictory nature: by accepting an apparent handicap (length limitation), flash fiction writer achieves the intensity that rivals only poetry while having an edge over its rival thanks to its narration. It’s like Ginger Rogers “doing everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels.”
Like most fiction, short and long, a flash is based on what I call a tripod: plot, characters and language. Remove one leg of the tripod, and the flash will collapse. Except that flash is a small tripod. Think tabletop but not a celestial telescope support.
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