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Wired's Very Short Stories
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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This post is just 6 words long.
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How many words have I left?
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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."
Happy people make bad consumers.
I, for one, welcome our ... damn.
"Ladies and gentlemen, my killbot features Lotus Notes and a machine gun. It is the finest available."
I didn't RTFA.
Reading code is like reading the dictionary - you have to read half of it before you can go back and understand it.
Fun? You must be new here.
It all started with a corpse.
:)
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.
She took my ring, said yes.
Help poke pirates in the eyepatch, arr.
A man, a plan, bloody palindromes.
Do not mock my vision of impractical footwear
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All your base belongs to us.
Something I've heard attributed to Hemingway as the world's shortest novel.
"For sale: baby's shoes, never worn."
Links abound for it on Google.
Eric
Monkey kung foo: Who Flung Poo.
What sound do people on rollercoasters make? Hint: it's not Xbox 360.
Short attention spans? Short stories. Profit!
At what price learning? At what cost wisdom? The price is a man's peace of mind, and the cost is his life.
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Surprise! Someone kidnapped on last page.
What sound do people on rollercoasters make? Hint: it's not Xbox 360.
'Twas a dark and stormy night.
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Reading code is like reading the dictionary - you have to read half of it before you can go back and understand it.
In the beginning... yadayada... the end.
Using only six words is supercalafragilisticexpialadocious.
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This task is easier with Germancompoundnouns.
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Sorry, just got back from a beginner's German class.
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This sounds suspiciously like the now decade old idea of writing very short stories that are 55 words or less. Probably the best example of one of these is this story by Jeffrey Whitmore:
"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, courtesy of Everything2.
qntm.org
We are all made of stars
Will work for food.
I stole this Sig
Famous last words: What happens if...
Adventure, Romance, MAD SCIENCE!
The Iowa landscape relentlessly did nothing.
the antidote, my bad.
Nevertheless, it was the old story...
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Droid becomes Chameleon,
Droid looses Chameleon,
Chameleon turns into Blob,
Droid gets Blob back again,
Blob meets Blob,
Blob goes off with Blob,
and Droid looses Blob, Chameleon and droid.
"How many times have we seen that story?"
The Digital Sorceress
Unable to complete simple tasks.
And the longest is, "I do."
Six word haiku? Ok.
Disintermediation
Xenophobia.
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It may look like I'm doing nothing, but I'm actively waiting for my problems to go away.
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Six word sentences can't say much.
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Mind comprehends perfect knowledge. Now what?
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It was alive just now, I swear!
I could go on all day.
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I always wondered about that, then I realized he was actually singing "This song's just six words long". I just checked the official song title on his web site and sure enough, it's "(This Song's Just) Six Words Long".
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