Why Flash Fiction?

I contributed a short piece to SmokeLong Quarterly’s ongoing “Why Flash Fiction?” series.

“Flash… gives voice to stories in the margins, the ones deemed too slight or elusive for more conventional narrative modes. And the deeper I get into the practice of writing, the more I am drawn to this interstitial space: between sense and scene, snapshot and story, silence and sound. By illuminating the underseen, we reveal a world more fully realized, in which small gestures resemble events, and a single moment can carry the weight of years.”

- “Space Between” at SmokeLong Quarterly