FLASHed: Sudden Stories in Comics and Prose

Published by Pressgang (2016)

Edited by Sari Wilson and Josh Neufeld

Featuring Lynda Barry, Gabrielle Bell, Aimee Bender, Jedidiah Berry, Nick Bertozzi, Box Brown, Junot Díaz, Gina Frangello, V.V. Ganeshahanthan, Myla Goldberg, Dean Haspiel, Sheila Heti, John Porcellino, Rob Walker, and many more.

FLASHed is an anthology of linked flash fiction stories in comics and prose by 45 star cartoonists and fiction writers. The stories in FLASHed are arranged in “triptychs”—each grouping a kind of call-and-response among the respective contributors. So FLASHed is more than an anthology; it’s a conversation—among some of today’s most exciting prose writers and cartoonists–and between the forms of prose and comics.

Why flash fiction? It’s the perfect form for a project that’s all about pushing boundaries and cross-fertilizing creative communities.  (For the purposes of this project, we defined “flash fiction” as a maximum of 1,000 words and “flash comics” as no more than four pages.)