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Wired's Very Short Stories
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on Wed Oct 25, 2006 07:43 PM
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from the dragons-eye-opened-the-hafling-wept-michael-zenke dept.
Wired's games blog Game|Life alerted me to a great feature on the main Wired site. Called Very Short Stories, the piece features the work of 33 well-known writers practicing their craft in six word chunks. Their work is combined with several talented graphic designers to generate some very creative works of art. Some of my favorites: "The baby's blood type? Human, mostly'. - Orson Scott Card
'Lie detector eyeglasses perfected: Civilization collapses.' - Richard Powers
'Kirby had never eaten toes before.' - Kevin Smith" The games blog makes a point to highlight the works of game writers Mark Laidlaw and Steve Meretzky. Laidlaw's contribution: ">Help! Trapped in a text adventure!" Alrighty, folks ... let's hear yours.
'Lie detector eyeglasses perfected: Civilization collapses.' - Richard Powers
'Kirby had never eaten toes before.' - Kevin Smith" The games blog makes a point to highlight the works of game writers Mark Laidlaw and Steve Meretzky. Laidlaw's contribution: ">Help! Trapped in a text adventure!" Alrighty, folks ... let's hear yours.
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I don't get it. (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:I don't get it. (Score:5, Interesting)
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Re:I don't get it. (Score:5, Funny)
Fucker can't even finish a 6 word story. Guess we'll have to buy the sequel....
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Nothing happens for most of book (Score:5, Funny)
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Oh crap...
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and the sixth word is (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:and the sixth word is (Score:4, Funny)
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Impossible Mission (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I don't get it. (Score:4, Interesting)
The Beginning. The Middle. The End.
and there you've got the whole story.
I was surprised that some of those stories are really good.
Re:I don't get it. (Score:4, Funny)
Have a nice day.
Besides, I know someone who won't even touch six words with a ten-feet pole and came up with two even shorter stories - one consisting of 4, another one consisting of five words - that became instant classics in world literature (well, oral culture, that is):
Story #1: Developers. DeVElopers. DeVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS!!
Story #2: I. Love. This. Company. YEEEEE-HAAHH!!!
The best part is: both have already been turned into movies.
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hm.. (Score:5, Funny)
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Oh shit... (Score:5, Funny)
My 2 cents (Score:5, Interesting)
Yawn. (Score:3, Funny)
Going to jail for that... (Score:5, Funny)
At $250,000 per violation, that will be One MILLION DOLLARS!
I'll be happy to accept the fine as proxy for Wired. Just to make things go smoothly, you understand, right?
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"The baby's",
"The baby's blood",
"The baby's blood type?", or
"The baby's blood type? Human",
convey the brilliance which exists in the flow and structure of the whole story.
Also, they considered just quoting "The", but were afraid you'd confuse it an exceprt from another story by another author.
I suppose the closest you'd get, would be to quote "The baby...Human, mostly.", but that kinda ruins it by giving the ending away.
E.
Sure (Score:5, Funny)
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One more word? (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:One more word? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:One more word? (Score:5, Funny)
It is really not that interesting (Score:4, Funny)
Re:It is really not that interesting (Score:5, Funny)
6w (Score:5, Funny)
Re:6w (Score:5, Interesting)
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Wait, that one has been done before. Let me try again.
Protagonist and young tease conquer villain.
Drats, someone wrote that one too. Hmm, I better be original then:
Loss. Emptiness. Poignant cry: Future, why?
Regards,
--
*Art
Only 6? (Score:5, Funny)
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6w2 (Score:4, Funny)
My son and I have been doing these... (Score:5, Funny)
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The cow spoke.
I went vegetarian. {Prof. Jonathan}
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This Post... (Score:4, Funny)
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This should be obvious... (Score:5, Funny)
No way! Too stupid. Next story. (Score:3, Funny)
mine (Score:3, Funny)
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Good... (Score:5, Funny)
Ryan Fenton
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Failure to meet criteria. (Score:5, Funny)
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She was dead; it mattered not. (Score:5, Funny)
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The best one... (Score:5, Interesting)
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"In the room was the last person on Earth. Suddenly, there was a knock at the door."
Re:The best one... (Score:4, Interesting)
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Last man alive, someone just knocked.
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Fun (Score:3, Funny)
Here are some: (Score:3, Interesting)
The sound waves still permeate us.
Sweat-stung eyes envision green landscapes.
The hair samples were conclusive: Sasquatch.
Unfortunately, the meds had undesirable side-effects. (is the hyphenated word cheating?)
It wasn't a gateway to Andromeda.
(this one should ring a bell, though not my line, obviously!)
My God... it's full of stars.
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A favourite of Ernest Hemingway: (Score:3, Interesting)
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"For Sale. Baby shoes. Never worn."
I think this is one of the saddest stories ever.
Then there's the world's shortest horror story: "The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door—"
And of course some science-fiction ones [everything2.com], courtesy of Everything2.
Cannibal says (Score:4, Funny)
My turn (Score:4, Funny)
Disintermediation
Xenophobia.
Six Word Story (Score:3, Insightful)
My feeble effort (Score:3, Funny)
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