Writers and readers – your thoughts on flash fiction?

For me, honestly I am not much of a fan. I find flash fiction absent of those descriptors and back-stories that I love to write and read about. The little details and whatnot's that makes a story whole. Just my feeling and definitely not to say that flash section does not have its place or that it is not an art all unto itself.

In fact, recently I read a flash tale entitled The Professional Crier by author Paul D. Dial. The tale appears in his flash fiction compilation entitled Free Five – Flash Fiction Pieces. Now, this single piece hasn’t altered my feeling towards flash fiction but it has opened my eyes to how genuinely good it can be. When I completed the short tale, I was thirsty for more information on the primary character, Penny Circe, and I was equally enamored with her surroundings and wanted to sense more of what it was like to be in her world.

Alas, as it is with flash this was all something I would have to conjure myself. Was it what the author saw in her, I bet not and as such, it left me short with the tale? Entertained within the short thousand words but something less than satisfied.