Independent Reading: Flash Fiction
You have a minimum of four (4) flash fiction stories to find and read on your own. You CANNOT use the same four (4) we're doing as a class. You also need to use crafted flash fiction - this is a genre in and of itself - it's different than fables or fairy tales or nursery rhymes or myths or legends or children's stories. So you cannot use those. This is a minimum. Read as many more as you like.
This is the notesheet to fill out.
Here are some useful websites for you to find stories on your own:
From the anthology Sudden Flash Youth edited by Christine Perkins-Hazuka, Tom Hazuka, and Mark Budman, published by Persea Books, 2012:
This is the notesheet to fill out.
Here are some useful websites for you to find stories on your own:
- CommonLit
- Absurdist fiction
- The New Yorker online
- Commaful.com
- Flash fiction online
- Smoke Long Quarterly, an online magazine
- Everyday Fiction
- 100 Word Stories
- Flash Fiction Magazinetub
- Reedsy
- Wigleaf
- Funny in 500 Podcast (Try these: "Merlin’s Dilemma”, “Literally My Life Story”, “Zombie Trouble”, “Surprise”, “Respect”, “Fancy Feast”, “Happy Meal”
- "The Dead Boy at your Window" and "Little Brother" by Bruce Holland Rogers
- "Pine" by Zane Andrew
- "The Cabin" by Phil Town
- "Snow White Adopted" by J.D. Edwin
- "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- "Her Number" by Antonia Nelson
- "Prisoner of War" by Muna Fadhil
- "Sticks" by George Saunders
From the anthology Sudden Flash Youth edited by Christine Perkins-Hazuka, Tom Hazuka, and Mark Budman, published by Persea Books, 2012:
- "Half Sleep" by Matt Krampitz
- "History" by Beth Alvarado
- "Between Practice and Perfection" by Azizat Danmole
- "Hey, Jess McCafferty" by Christine Byl
- "The Haircut" by Manuela Soares