Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words (“For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”) and is said to have called it his best work.
A couple of my favourites from the Wired website linked to above are:
- Easy. Just touch the match to
– Ursula K. Le Guin
- Longed for him. Got him. Shit.
– Margaret Atwood
How about you? What would your 6-word story be?
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Hindenburg is approaching. Oh the humanity!
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I quite liked the one you posted on Yelbakk’s h2g2 thread, Woodpigeon (yes, I shamelessly lifted this post idea from him). Want to post it here too?
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Hemingway? There’s something similar in an Alan Bennet book – only it’s classified ad about a pram.
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They did it again and again.
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Should have turned right. Turned left.
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Honey I’m home! Er who’s he?
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Born, I found love, then died.
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It’s a bit like haiku, isn’t it? Except using six words rather than seven syllables.
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What’s that web page? Nothing, dear.
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Honey I’m home! Er, who’s she?
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Leaves, snow, rain, and sunshine fall.
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Your secret is safe. (Got you!)
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Meet Build Birth Laugh Split Sad
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Fallen trees block that road now.
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Never Came Close To Understanding It.
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The Oracle always speaks unclear truth.
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I said no. He didn’t listen.
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Haikus, eh? See here.
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Six word stories, authors given, but can you name the books? First two are very easy, get’s harder.
1. Lord make ring, gets done in.
JRR Tolkien.
2. Drives enemies before him, saves maiden.
Robert E.Howard.
3. Gribbly tentacled insanity, man goes mad.
H.P.Lovecraft.
4. Paper burns, fireman turns, humanity learns.
Ray Bradbury.
5. Girls like lash, author likes cash.
John Norman.
6. Gauls’ fifty, Romans’ nought, big feast.
Goscinny & Uderzo.
7. Space cruises, monster loses, to woman.
Alan Dean Foster.
8. Sulky tennager becomes flawed dark lord.
George Lucas.
9. Destiny lies upriver, oh the horror!
Coppola-esque.
10. Evil triumphs, except for meddling kids.
C.S.Lewis.
Matholwch the Riddler .
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1. The Lord of the Rings
2. Not positive, but maybe Conan the Barbarian
3. Could be almost any Lovecraft book. Maybe The Dunwich Horror.
4. Fahrenheit 451
5. Any of the Gor books
6. Asterix, but I don’t know which one
7. The book of the film. Alien
8. Revenge of the Sith (Star Wars Episode III)
9. Apocalypse Now.
10. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
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And the prize goes to Noggin 🙂
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He got them ALL right???
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