Here are some "stories in six words", as solicited and printed by Wired magazine. Mostly sci-fi....
Lie detector eyeglasses perfected: civilization collapses. -- Richard Powers
The baby's blood type? Human, mostly. -- Orson Scott Card
Kirby had never eaten toes before. -- Kevin Smith
It's behind you! Hurry before it -- Rockne S O'Bannon
Epitath: foolish humans, never escaped Earth. -- Vernor Virge
Longed for him. Got him. Sh-t. -- Margaret Atwood
Internet "wakes up" ? Ridicu -- [no carrier] -- Charles Stross
and yours? (Mine on the way... I don't mean your favorites but rather your own writing. Captain Canuck assigns homework!)
2 comments:
I liked Hemmingway's, what he (allegedly) considered the saddest story he wrote:
"For sale: Baby shoes. Never used."
Yep... the article mentions that one as the inspiration for the whole piece. It is better than all the others.
IMHO, it is a bit like the Rorschach test in that it could be sad or not depending on interpretation
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