Citations:flashfic

English citations of flashfic

Noun: "(uncountable, fandom slang) flash fiction"

• 2002 November 14, Scipio , “{ASSD} Something I wrote, along those lines. Was (Re: {ASSM} Lipogram of S-E-X...)”, in alt.sex.stories.d‎ (Usenet):

  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...

• 2002 November 23, Jaime Lyn, “NEW: Snowed In”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative‎ (Usenet):

  Flashfic here, during a break from real life bombardments.

• 2003 July 28, PQ the Cat , “Re: _Flash Fiction Writers_ Desdmona's Postcard Fiction Contest”, in alt.fiction.original‎ (Usenet):

  "Flashing For Fun and Combat"
  7 erotic flashes of <300 words. One is 80 words.
  (the odd title comes from its being a flashfic duel)

• 2005 December 27, Acidqueen , “NEW TNG "On Love" 1/1 D/Y”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated‎ (Usenet):

  A flashfic challenge answer from my livejournal.

• 2011, Tisha Turk, "Metalepsis in Fan Videos and Fan Fiction", in Metalepsis in Popular Culture (eds. Karin Kukkonen & Sonja Klimek), De Gruyter (2011), →ISBN, page 98:

  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).

• 2011 March 16, Kirok of L'Stok , “Re: NEW TNG: Carpe Diem, P/C and others (1/1), G-rated”, in alt.startrek.creative‎ (Usenet):

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

Noun: "(countable, fandom slang) an individual work of flash fiction, particularly a fanfic"

• 2002 June 11, dennyw , “Re: {ASSD} Gauntlets: The (Long-Awaited) Judgement”, in alt.sex.stories.d‎ (Usenet):

  Alexis has posted her 7 flashfics from this duel to ASSM and Stories online under that title.)

• 2003 November 16, Jane Davitt, “Re: Drabble: Forever After”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative‎ (Usenet):

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

• 2006, L. D. Beghol, Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs: A Field Guide, Continuum (2006), →ISBN, page 103:

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

• 2011, Max Giovagnoli, Transmedia Storytelling: Imagery, Shapes and Techniques, ETC Press (2011), →ISBN, page 84:

  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).

• 2011 February 26, Kirok of L'Stok , “NEW: TOS Winter's Rose, 1/1, Pike & Vina”, in alt.startrek.creative‎ (Usenet):

  Plus the fact that the focus of the issue was pre-TOS and we already had an ENT short story - The Light by J. R. Gershen-Siegel - so I worked up a flashfic of one of my favourite characters - Cpt Pike!.