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flash fiction

style of fictional literature or fiction of extreme brevity
Class type of: short prose, fiction literature, xiaoshuo Q5457615

Facts

4 properties
Instance of
literary genre, literary form[2]
Subclass of
short prose, fiction literature, xiaoshuo[3][4][5]
Different from
short prose[8]
Said to be the same as
short short story, short prose[6][7]
🏷️ Also known as
en flash fiction en nanofiction en fast fiction en sudden fiction en microfiction en short short story ar خيال الفلاش ar الأدب الوجيز ar أدب وجيز cs blesková fikce da kortprosa de Microfiction de Fast Fiction de Sudden Fiction de Nanofiction es microrrelato es Microrrelatos es Microficcion es Microrelatos es Microficción
🔖 Identifiers · 14
Library of Congress authority ID
sh2014100267
Encyclopedia of Science Fiction ID
flash_fiction
Freebase ID
/m/03g77n
Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms ID
gf2014026543
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2780046917
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007407565305171
National Library of Latvia ID
000332847, 000332892
Norwegian thesaurus on genre and form ID
156
Open Library subject ID
flash_fiction
Pixiv Encyclopedia ID
ショートショート
Subreddit
flashfiction
TV Tropes ID
Main/FlashFiction
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Topic's main category
Wikidata item
Yale LUX ID
concept/696bdfdc-c0a4-4eb2-820d-55f58dd1346d

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🔗 Connections
← Form of creative work 5
The Oval Portrait, For sale: baby shoes, never worn, Memory, The dinosaur, Insert Knob A In Hole B
Subclass of 2
fiction literature, xiaoshuo
← Genre 2
Franz Kafka, Miho Mosulishvili
Belongs to 1
xiaoshuo
Instance of 1
literary genre
Subtypes 1
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Summary

flash fiction is a literary genre[1].

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Franz Kafka

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  1. [2] ↑ . owlcation.com. owlcation.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 25d ago · Clemens Dulcis · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'as', 'ca', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'eu', 'fa', 'fr', 'ga', '
    Different from → short prose
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Different from: short prose"
  2. 22w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → literary genre, literary form
    Aliases → —
    Topic's main category → Wikidata item
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    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007407565305171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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