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Flash Fiction : Light Years (19/100)

Sunday 17 January 2010

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Light Years is a work of flash fiction. In fact it is the slowest piece of flash-fiction ever written. In real-time its one hundred words would take exactly 10,000 years to recount. Because of the limitations of a normal human life-span, it has been specially accelerated to the speed of one word per week. It will therefore take just under two years to tell from start to finish.

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Posted by Simon Kewin at 00:00

2 comments:

  1. Old Kitty17 January 2010 at 09:01

    Hi

    A very late comer to your blog from Nicola Morgan's blog party! So hello and what an impressive blog.

    Being a fan of all things flash, I clicked on your "flash fiction:light years" and erm.

    I read them starting from the top (the latest) scrolling down through to the bottom (the beginning).

    I just thought I'd confess that because now I just feel really silly.

    I did read the words the right way up eventually and hope to be here for the full 100 words, read the right way up of course.

    :-)

    Take care

    x

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  2. Simon Kewin17 January 2010 at 09:13

    Hi Old Kitty,

    Hi and thanks! Yes, I can see it could be confusing. I'm just experimenting, really. I rather like the idea of reading it backwards, since it is an SF piece about time.

    Anyway, hope you're here for the 100th. I'm following your blog now!

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