Flash Fiction: Good Things Come in Small Packages

Interesting article, here's an excerpt:

Some connotations of Flash are perfect for what the Flash artist should be trying to do: the sudden burst of light, fleeting illumination, sudden awareness, epiphany. Others are more indicative of what the Flash artist needs to avoid: the flash of the con man dazzling the unwary, the flash in the pan, a lack of depth that cannot last.

Flash literature at its best 'should flame out like shining from shook foil;' it should 'fall, gall' itself, 'gash gold vermilion.' It should get to the inner heart of the thing, its inscape, in the words of the poet. And it should do so without wasting a word. When you're talking about a few hundred words, you had better make sure that every word is there for a purpose.