A new meme: Your Six-Word Short Story

[thatcrazycajun]

Wired magazine's print edition this month features a compilation of submissions from various authors who were asked by the editors to replicate Ernest Hemingway's legendary feat of telling a story in just six words ("For sale: baby shoes, never worn"). The 40+ participants included Vernor Vinge ("Epitaph: Foolish humans, never escaped Earth"), William Shatner ("Failed SAT. Lost scholarship. Invented rocket."), Joss Whedon ("Gown removed carelessly. Head, less so.") and Arthur C. Clarke, who refused to limit himself to only six words ("God said, 'Cancel Program Genesis.' The universe ceased to exist."). My personal fave came from comics legend Stan Lee: "Automobile warranty expires. So does engine."

So can you write a good story in just six words? Here's mine to start you off: "She looked human in the bar..."

Comments

[almeda.livejournal.com]

Next Wednesday, I drowned in slime ...

Don't Get Me Started

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Heartbroken. Hopeless. No ammo. Sigh. Onward.

Cthulhu was inside Freddy all along!?

Perfect wedding cake. Banana peel. Oops.

Incompatibility: Janine necrophiliac, Edgar cryogenically preserved.

Nah, hot sauce doesn't WATER! NOW!

Love?
No.
Why?
Her.
Granny Ayesha?

She was buried in her armor.

Re: Don't Get Me Started

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

Showoff. Phhbt. :-)

[baggette.livejournal.com]

Almeda, You know that *drowned* is not a word.

How about....

'Escaped winter to live in Maine'

[almeda.livejournal.com]

What word would you use for past tense of 'to drown'?

[not-the-pope.livejournal.com]

Universe reboot error. Abort, retry, continue?

Legs asleep. Hand asleep. Cat asleep.

Red light. Red Light! RED LIGHT!!!

whoops! Sorry Almeda

[baggette.livejournal.com]

Sorry Almeda,

I was confused for a moment, on Drowned/drown.
It is 'hung' that isn't really a word and the proper useage is 'hanged'
Danged again!