Some qualities that I've noticed about flash fictions is that the stories allow the reader to fill in a lot of the subject matter on their own. Using outside information and previous experience the reader bring a more complete story to the front.The medium of short stories allows the reader to bridge the gap between stories with reflection that is deeper because the story is complete by itself yet part of a deeper collection. To immerse into the short stories is to dive deep into the consciousness of the writer. The ability to use the negative space and the words not put into the story and allow the reader to fill in the gaps. All this is shown to be effective because the ability to take a story and remove the fat, the extra stuff and apply only the minimal description to build a structure that is both important and necessary in the flash fictions.
It's different to other types of stories that I have read because the stories range from many topics yet connect just as deeply as a novel. The characters are as deep and as complex as the one's from more expansive universes.
In "Something Overheard" by Yennie Cheung the reader is transported to something beyond the world."On weekends, the neighbor turns up her aerobics DVD, and the walls tremble like a big rig in your blind spot." This line transports the reader into a scene that the reader will remember if its ever happen to them the feeling of having a big rig on top of them without them knowing it and to remember the fear of having the inability to prepare your self to the shock.
Right in the beginning Yennie Cheung established her voice in "the walls of your apartment are as thin as the girl next door." This establishes that both the girl and the wall are an extraordinary characteristic. That both the girl and the wall are immeasurable and defined in the space of the extreme. It defines that the girl and the wall share more than just the size of their width they share the intrusion that they have upon the reader.
It's weirder because it directly addresses the reader and used the 2nd person perspective. It makes it into a personal journey that buffers the feeling of doing something that you shouldn't that is listening to the neighbor because of the the thin walls but also it connects you to this mysterious girl next door that produces the scene of having this connection to the effect that the girl has on the environment rather than the subject. And makes the girl all the more important because the girl is more than just a random person. The girl is a passenger into the world of the unknown.
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