Meaning of flashfic | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Flash fiction.
   slang, uncountable
2. An individual work of flash fiction, especially a fanfic.
   countable, slang

Examples

“I will throw down the gauntlet to other flash authors (or anyone else)... Write a piece of flashfic that's a palindrome (reading by paragraphs, that is). I'll see if I can whip out another one as well...”

“Anti-illusionist metalepsis is acceptable under certain circumstances, however, as we can see in the NCIS and Due South flashfic self-insertion challenges (malnpudl 2007; china_shop 2008).”

“I'm not even sure if it qualifies as a FlasFic^([sic]) but like most good flashfic it relies for its success on the readers^([sic]) existing background knowledge to place it within a larger framework.”

“(Though, not to nit pick^([sic]) but it isn't a drabble; they're 100 words, excluding title; this is a short fic, flashfic, ficlet...whatever<g>)”

“This feels like a flashfic, one of those teensy-weensy short stories that leaves you gasping in just five or six sentences.”

“According to a fanfiction tale's length, we can find the drabble (text up to 110 words), the flashfic (between 111 and 500 words) and the one piece, or one shot (more than 500 words).”

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