Previously, I wrote how I loved writing flash fiction because it can be written in a reasonably short space of time in response to an idea that suddenly crosses my mind which is highly appropriate because another name for flash fiction is ’sudden fiction’.
Sudden fiction is sometimes argued to be fiction that can be read at one sitting like flash fiction but some people claim that the number of words in the story is more likely to be 1000 or more rather than around 750.
Perhaps also sudden fiction can be defined as flash fiction that is still short and intense but which has overrun a little bit beyond what can be considered as a flash.
One of my favourite science fiction character creations is called the President of Earth. He’s a bit of an old duffer and tends to make World decisions based on whether it will delay him getting out onto the golf course but he is a character for whom I have affection.
In my sudden fiction story ‘In THEIR eyes YOU are just compost‘, the plot of the fictional story was clear in my mind until I got to the end but then a little bit of a twist suggested itself to me and this took up another 280 words which put the word count to about 1100.
Perhaps you could argue that sudden fiction is flash fiction which is suddenly extended by a nice twist at the end 
Flash fiction or sudden fiction? I leave the decision to you and would love to receive your opinion below.
Bye for now
Rob
