Friday, November 21, 2008

shortest story challenge

i love short stories
Hemmingway was once supposed to have written a short story in just six words. it goes:
"For Sale: Baby Shoes. Never Worn..."
the challenge: come up with your own six word stories and post it here!
here are my favorites from wired.com...
Computer, did we bring batteries? Computer? -eileen gunn
Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time- Alan Moore
Longed for him. Got him. Shit.- Margaret Atwood
Epitaph: Foolish humans, never escaped Earth.- Vernor Vinge
It cost too much, staying human.- Bruce Sterling
It’s behind you! Hurry before it- Rockne S. O’Bannon
I’m your future, child. Don’t cry.- Stephen Baxter
We went solar; sun went nova.- Ken MacLeod
TIME MACHINE REACHES FUTURE!!! … nobody there …- Harry Harrison
Epitaph: He shouldn't have fed it.- Brian Herbert

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