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Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Six-Word Stories: Brilliant, Aren't They?

Using Hemingway's six-word story ("For sale: baby shoes, never worn.") as an inspiration, the editors of Wired asked a bunch of different writers for their own takes on brief storytelling. Some of my favorites:
It’s behind you! Hurry before it (Rockne S. O’Bannon)

The baby’s blood type? Human, mostly. (Orson Scott Card)

whorl. Help! I'm caught in a time (Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel)

Some of them seem more like first lines than actual full stories, and there's a lot of Bush bashing (not that I'm entirely opposed) and jokey ones in there, but it's still a pretty clever exercise.

So, think you can do better? Here's mine:

The world: Gone. My pants, too.

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