Small Fiction

The qualities that I've noticed about these genres was that despite how short they were I never knew what to expect. I never knew what was about to happen on the end unless I read the flash fictions all the way through. And sometimes they keep you guessing which I like. I could also think of some clues when there are no conclusions. I would say that flash fictions are very different from other fictions I've read in the past. The majority of fictions would basically have stories of many different things possible, but the stories wouldn't sound out of the ordinary. They sounded normal like a life that anyone else could live. Flash fictions though go to another level. I believe a flash fiction has more behind its story than a regular long fiction story does. There was one flash fiction that caught my attention and that was the fiction "It Will Never Be Deep Enough" by Jane Liddle. First of all I wanted to know more about the main character or the narrator because he was asking questions, but the way it was put in the text was unusual. It had periods instead of question marks. There's this one part where the main character is talking to someone named Garcia and is telling her of someone named Ava. There's this one part where he continues about Ava, saying "Ava doesn't like me. I think she's intimidated by me because guys dig me and I know it" (Butler 53).I can't tell if the narrator is a female and Ava is jealous of her or if Ava doesn't like him because the narrators gay? I really don't know. I like how this flash fiction was all about him or her asking Garcia questions but it was personal questions. Speaking of this I just remembered another two quotes that I felt confused to follow, which was when he asked Garcia "Why do you cheat on her... You like people to see you with her. You get another boost [of ego] by cheating on her" (Butler 52) but then is he talking to Garcia here? Maybe Garcia is lesbian? Maybe if I could try to ask as much questions myself like the narrator is doing, I would come up with some clues. I believe that this flash fiction was definitely something that was experienced by nature by the author because it sounded like it flowed naturally. He didn't seem to be afraid to put these questions so simple. But all the questions were scattered. There was so many of them and not all were related to each other which I liked. Adding bits of his story phrame inbetween some questions made a voice for this flash fiction to come to life.