“The Secret Lives of Flashers” — A Guest Post from Nod Ghosh

It’s not all dirty raincoats and running from the police. Flash fiction writing has entered the sphere of respectability within literary circles. W.W. Norton’s Flash Fiction Anthology published in 2015 features short short pieces from Etgar Keret to Christchurch authors Frankie McMillan and James Norcliffe. The third edition of the Best Small Fictions series has recently selected winners from thousands of submissions from around the world.

The number of publications specialising in flash see...