An even shorter anthology
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 9:18 pm
You've probably heard this one. Ernest Hemingway once wrote a story in six words: "For sale: baby shoes. Never worn." (Though Snopes tells me it's possible that he didn't write it.)
Here's my own anthology of very, very short stories, each comprising 6 words.
1. The agony made me someone different.
2. Satyrs lived on those beaches now.
3. She injected heroin into the cake.
4. Horns poked through her auburn curls.
5. The first resurrection happened last month.
6. Those things passed, so may this.
7. Hospital. Home. Kindergarten. School. University. Hospital.
8. If you can read this, help.
9. I married Johanna from the morgue.
10. Even as Pope, I had problems.
11. My second child, Simon, also died.
12. Young, blonde, killed someone with tapioca.
13. I know it is true, Lucifer.
14. You start feeling cold when dying.
15. One novel: love. Another novel: death.
16. The final resurrection happened last Sunday.
17. She left novels on bus tickets.
18. You sing and do not know.
19. The A-bomb's glare twisted like tentacles.
20. The shadow below wasn't mine.
21. I passed out in the cave.
22. Pyrokinesis was hard, creating explosions easier.
23. Damaged: my memory encompasses ninety days.
24. Unexpectedly, you could dream in Hell.
25. Light. Stumbling. Light. Pain. Light. Blank.
26. I endeavoured to smother him painlessly.
27. Drink up; we will die simultaneously.
28. My brother joined the other side.
29. Hero's ascent, climax, hero's descent, fall.
30: Schooling; love; madness; children; death; escape.
Feel free to add your own!
Here's my own anthology of very, very short stories, each comprising 6 words.
1. The agony made me someone different.
2. Satyrs lived on those beaches now.
3. She injected heroin into the cake.
4. Horns poked through her auburn curls.
5. The first resurrection happened last month.
6. Those things passed, so may this.
7. Hospital. Home. Kindergarten. School. University. Hospital.
8. If you can read this, help.
9. I married Johanna from the morgue.
10. Even as Pope, I had problems.
11. My second child, Simon, also died.
12. Young, blonde, killed someone with tapioca.
13. I know it is true, Lucifer.
14. You start feeling cold when dying.
15. One novel: love. Another novel: death.
16. The final resurrection happened last Sunday.
17. She left novels on bus tickets.
18. You sing and do not know.
19. The A-bomb's glare twisted like tentacles.
20. The shadow below wasn't mine.
21. I passed out in the cave.
22. Pyrokinesis was hard, creating explosions easier.
23. Damaged: my memory encompasses ninety days.
24. Unexpectedly, you could dream in Hell.
25. Light. Stumbling. Light. Pain. Light. Blank.
26. I endeavoured to smother him painlessly.
27. Drink up; we will die simultaneously.
28. My brother joined the other side.
29. Hero's ascent, climax, hero's descent, fall.
30: Schooling; love; madness; children; death; escape.
Feel free to add your own!