I recently came across a post on a website regarding six-word short stories.
Read the whole article here.
Anyhow, this was based on Hemingway’s “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”
I found this completely fascinating and very interesting. It conveys much the same idea about writing as John Cage did about music. So, I put together a list of my favourites. Here they are.
“He read his obituary with confusion.”
– Steven Meretzky
“I saw, darling, but do lie.”
– Orson Scott Card
“Dinosaurs return. Want their oil back.”
– David Brin
“Lost, then found. Too bad.”
– Graeme Gibson
“Thought I was right. I wasn’t.”
– Graeme Gibson
“Heaven falls. Details at eleven.”
– Robert Jordan
“Computer, did we bring batteries? Computer?”
– Eileen Gunn
“Gown removed carelessly. Head, less so.”
– Joss Whedon
“Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time”
– Alan Moore
“God said, ‘Cancel Program GENESIS.’ The universe ceased to exist.”
– Arthur C. Clark
“We kissed. She melted. Mop please!”
– James Patrick Kelly
“I’m your future, child. Don’t cry.”
– Stephen Baxter
“Lie detector eyeglasses perfected: Civilization collapses.”
– Richard Powers
“The baby’s blood type? Human, mostly.”
– Orson Scott Card
“Tick tock tick tock tick tick.”
– Neal Stephenson
“Easy. Just touch the match to”
– Ursula K. Le Guin
“Clones demand rights: second Emancipation Proclamation.”
– Paul Di Filippo
Hope you enjoyed, had a laugh or two, and possibly even stopped to ponder for a while!
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