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This is the first collection of flash literature "Flash Discourse" for the O:JA&L Prize. The ten best stories were chosen and published. The flash pieces published by this journal are all outstanding and so many of them deserve special recognition. Through the years short-short stories have undergone many changes. Creative writers pushed boundaries, blurred genre lines, and the results have been stories that refuse to remain within any strict formulations about them. This trend continues as short-short stories evolve into today's concept of very short fiction. The models and strategies from older short-shorts along with experiments that take stories into new, interesting, and inventive directions have given us more new stories that matter.