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Flashers are extremely short stories that are 100 words or less. They need to be complete stories with a logical beginning, middle and end. They are designed to teach an author to write in complete, concise language. Every single word counts. Writing flashers is actually very, very hard to do. At least, for me it is. You must craft your prose tight enough to have a logical, evocative short story in the extremely short word court. But, I like the style. I like the way every single word must count. I like the way you need to craft the dialogue (if there is any) to correctly infer previous actions and relationships between characters. Most of all, I like way flashers bring a whole story to mind in such a short flash of words. Still Life - based on a Michael Parkes' painting of the same name.