As part of the #fridayflash community on Twitter, I wrote a new piece of flash fiction every week for a year. Though I returned to novel writing at the end of it, the flashes kept coming and tugging at me to be written. Here are the best 52 of the 70 or so I wrote. Flash fiction allows you to tell different types of story in a different way, because the 1000 or so words allows the reader to keep every one of them in mind as they read, which can't be done with a 75,000 word novel. These stories leap straight inside the mind and emotions of each character, because the writer doesn't have the luxury of extensive description. That enhances a certain intensity of emotion.