Six-Word Stories
October 23rd, 2006Hemingway wrote a classic 6-word story, supposedly on a bet: “For sale: baby shoes, never used.” (In my book, just one supershort story tops that: Julius Caesar’s classic “Veni, vidi, vici.”)
Flickr’s Caterina Fake sent out a call for new 6-word stories. What fun! I threw these into the mix:
- This Kool Aid tastes like cyanide.
- America goes the way of Rome.
- Sting ray fells hunter of crocs.
- I’m sorry, that lump is cancer.
- Boy meets girl. Girl sautees boy.
Now the meme’s in Wired too..
http://blog.wired.com/sixwords/
My favorites there:
“Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time” – Alan Moore
“Epitaph: Foolish humans, never escaped Earth.” – Vernor Vinge
“Jesus wept.”
“Sautees boy”!!! OMFG, I just snorted tea all over my laptop. You’re not supposed to get these things wet, right?
Years ago when I was employed in the tourist trade, we guides used to do something similar, sit around exchanging the joke punchlines-
“Dumbass, the potato goes in front.”