Flash is a decisive moment. The form stands alone. It narrows the focus. It cuts the fat. It puts the lotion in the basket. It’s like tiny house living with custom multipurpose furniture and mini mod cons.
Poet and flash essayist Lia Purpura has a thing for narrative miniatures. Each one, she says, is “a working, functioning complete world unto itself, is not merely a ‘small’ or ‘brief’ thing or a ‘shortened’ form of something larger. Miniatures transcend their size… and most strangely to me, miniatures are radically self-sufficient.”
Keep this in mind while you read the very brief essay and the prompt it inspired for Day 2.
