The Paper Airplane

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Flash and Substance

Flash and Substance

E. Lily Yu
Aug 04, 2021
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I was asked recently about how one writes flash fiction, which is the form my first published stories took.1 (Example.) The piece of flash fiction most frequently anthologized and taught, I believe, is Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl,” published in The New Yorker in 1978. Smokelong Quarterly is devoted to the form and regularly puts out good work.

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