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"With the advent of the Internet, editors are looking for shorter works, more easily read on a computer screen. The current term is "flash fiction", a tale between 300-1000 words long. Longer than micro-fiction (10-300 words) but shorter than traditional short stories (3000-5000 words preferred by most magazines), flash fiction is usually a story of a single act, sometimes the culmination of several unwritten events"

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Note added at 27 mins (2005-10-24 00:20:05 GMT)
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The above quote is from: http://www.fictionfactor.com/guests/flashfiction.html

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Note added at 28 mins (2005-10-24 00:21:13 GMT)
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