Plot in Flash Fiction: A Study of Irony in the Flashes in Lydia Davis’ Varieties of Disturbance (2007)

Flash fiction, stories of extreme brevity, is a subgenre short story writing in which special attention paid to the choice words, grammar and punctuation actively involve reader act unravelling multiple layers meaning evoked. Upon reading flash, “Readers move time such way that it catapults them from beginning end back again” (Rohrberger 2004: 7). The brevity flash abrupt ending bring full circle title. reflection on title irony interwoven fabric latent meanings start evolve constructing plot as complex longer narratives. Although critics claim fiction lacks plot, present paper proves through interpreting flashes Lydia Davis’ Varieties Disturbance (2007) has what gives rise it.