With National Flash Fiction Day on Friday, poet and NFFD
organiser Michelle Elvy has brought Flash to Tuesday Poem. She's posted BOMB by Sian Williams along with an
interview on how the story came to be. Both she and Sian edit the new journal
Flash Frontier and are organising NFFD which includes the announcement of
prizewinners.
Michelle says - Flash is both challenging and
inspiring. Capturing the essence of something in such a short
space requires a certain skill, and flash fiction -- despite its very trim word
limit -- allows both freedom and experimentation. Sian wrote this story
for the Flash Frontier issue themed splinters.
I find it a marvellous example of short short fiction -- beautifully written,
simple at first glance with layers to unpack.
And here's how the story begins:
As the plate-glass façade of the university library
disintegrated, Miranda looked up from her essay on symbolism in Germanic
folk-tale and thought:
it’s true
in an explosion
everything
really
does
happen
in slo-mo.
Hooked? There's more in the TP sidebar - and a
nice collection of poems too. Go and
check it out.
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