A "flash fiction" story is a work of fiction ranging anywhere from 300 to 1,000 words. A story typically gets right to the point in focusing on a powerful image. Richard Currey's book "Fatal Light", is a perfect example of a novel that uses "flash fiction". Currey used this form to help benefit the ideas of the story in order for the readers to get a feel of what the Vietnam War was like for a soldier before, during, and after.
Curry wanted to portray what is was really like to live and survive in Vietnam, by always living in the moment, with events happening sudden and quick all around them. As a reader one will never know what could happen next. Therefore Currey has achieved his goal on creating the feeling for his audience in gaining the feeling of what a soldier lived every moment in Vietnam.
In the last section of the book when he returns home from the war, the "flash fiction" stories begins to slow down with the longer stories flowing together. This was intended to focus more of the emotions from returning from the war. Overall Currey's "Fatal Light" is an outstanding piece of literature that implemented "flash fiction" into his novel to achieve his message of the book better compared to a typical novel.
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