Thirteen Ways of Looking at Flash Fiction -- The Freedom of Constraints -- Telling a Story in Fragments -- The Erotics of Brevity -- Context: How Much Is Enough? -- The Fullness of Omission -- White Spaces -- Plotting in Miniature (and with a Slant) -- Writing Characters in Fleeting Profile -- Writing for the Essence -- The Sounds of Silence -- Found Objects, Found Stories -- Story as Collage -- Going Small to Go Big: The Art of Expansion -- Going Small to Go Small -- The Poetics of Brevity -- Is It Poetry or Prose? -- How Short Can You Go? -- The Mot Juste -- The Sentence -- The Paragraph -- The Title -- The "Flash Novel" and the Novella -- Endings -- Flashings Quotes on Writing Short