Compression: Ron Larsen
“I think of compressed fiction as a prose form of haiku, in which the writer strives to sow as much meaning as possible into the smallest space possible and still tell a story, with many details merely evoked, trusting readers to see and feel whatever they are capable of seeing and feeling. Put another way, flash fiction means reducing the volume of the ‘fuel mixture’ (i.e., the words) in a confined space, thus increasing pressure, and igniting the reader’s imagination.” — Ron Larsen
