Came across this via slashdot: six word short stories by 38 genre writers and game designers. The idea originated from a story by Hemingway:
For sale: baby shoes, never worn.and generated real winners by Joss Whedon:
Gown removed carelessly. Head, less so.Margaret Atwood:
Longed for him. Got him. Shit.Orson Scott Card:
The baby’s blood type? Human, mostly.Neal Stephenson:
Tick tock tick tock tick tick.and good entries by Gregory Benford:
WORLD'S END. Sic transit gloria Monday.Graeme Gibson:
Three to Iraq. One came back.David Brin:
Metrosexuals notwithstanding, quiche still lacks something.Ken Macleod:
Will this do (lazy writer asked)?Steven Meretzky:
Leia: "Baby's yours." Luke: "Bad news…"
Amazing that six words can be hysterical (eg Whedon, Atwood), disturbing (Card, Stephenson) or tragic (Hemingway, Gibson).
Also fascinating how the clever story by Alan Moore:
Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a timeused exactly the same plot and device as Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel's:
whorl. Help! I'm caught in a time(You need two people to write six words??)
Anyway, thought I'd have a go:
God: "Let there be light. Again."
The unicorns saw Noah's ark depart.
PATRIOT Act: Act patriotically. Or else.
Time is like a river. Drown.
He remembered his birth ... after dying.