Creative Writing

These two examples

are from a “flash” fiction project in Creative Writing class. Students had to choose an image from a number of 2 dimensional pieces that our Studio Art students created and shared with the Creative Writing class, and then write a flash fiction story (under 400 words) based on this image.

Flash fiction comes in many forms, but there is no single defining characteristic of a flash piece other than its length. Stories told in this mode often capture individual moments—just before or just after a moment of significance for a character—and in this way they often resemble paintings or photographs, capturing a single moment of stillness that implies action both before and after.