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Wired's Very Short Stories

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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.

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  1. My 2 cents by armydillo2025 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    He was born, lived and died.

  2. Re:I don't get it. by euniana · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Make verbose writers toil for brevity.

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    stillwaters: silent and reticent
  3. Ummmmm.... by ACK!! · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The fat penguins ate them all.

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    ACK /ak/ interj. 2. [from the comic strip "Bloom County"] An exclamation of surprised disgust, esp. i
  4. The best one... by Tyler+Durden · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Below is a fairly famous short short story I heard a few times. It gives me chills every time I think about it...

    "In the room was the last person on Earth. Suddenly, there was a knock at the door."

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    Happy people make bad consumers.
    1. Re:The best one... by Cylix · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Or...

      Last man alive, someone just knocked.

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      "You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours." -- Yogi Berra
  5. A story weirdly inappropriate for slashdot by patio11 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    She took my ring, said yes.

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    Help poke pirates in the eyepatch, arr.
  6. Re:6w by arth1 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Beautiful day. Evil comes. Bangor, Maine.

    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,
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    *Art

  7. Re:I don't get it. by Propaganda13 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's really simple, you just have to write

    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.