On flash fiction / Michael Cocchiarale and Scott D. Emmert -- Flash fiction: from text to audio to music, stage, and film adaptations / Pamelyn Casto -- Flash fiction and the critical scholarship: a search for independence / Randall Brown -- Flash and fabulism: a new marriage of old forms / Kristen Figgins -- The destroyer and the rotten heart: comparing and contrasting Donald Barthelme's "The baby" and Amelia Gray's "The heart" / Megan Giddings -- Kate Chopin's flash fiction and flash fiction theory / Robert C. Evans -- Against short attention spans: "fragmentary" fiction for "fragmentary" lives / Santino Prinzi -- Living together, living apart: Jews under oppressive Russian regimes in Isaac Babel's flash fiction / Eric Sterling -- Latin American flash fiction: Julio Cortázar and Luisa Valenzuela / Laura Hatry -- "Art is not in some far-off place": Lydia Davis's "one-paragraph freedom" / Julie Tanner -- Shameful secrets and seducing the whole world: Amy Hempel's flash fiction and female sexuality / Laura Tansley -- "a few very pleasant shocks": Diane Williams and the art of flash fiction / Matthew Duffus -- Kathy Fish's flash fiction: fishing for meaning in a diminished world / Randall Brown -- The mathematics of the heart: Mary Robison considered as a flash fiction novelist / David Swann -- Nanofiction and the limits of the form: insights from the 420-character fictions of Lou Beach / Jarrell D. Wright.