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Six Word Stories: Can You Compete?

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Wired Magazine has a cool story where they asked authors to create six word stories along the lines of Hemingway's six word story ("For sale: baby shoes, never worn.")

Here's some of my favorites:

Failed SAT. Lost scholarship. Invented rocket.
- William Shatner
Gown removed carelessly. Head, less so.
- Joss Whedon
Automobile warranty expires. So does engine.
- Stan Lee
Longed for him. Got him. Shit.
- Margaret Atwood
His penis snapped off; he’s pregnant!
- Rudy Rucker
Easy. Just touch the match to
- Ursula K. Le Guin

Seems like the Bonfire denizens could come up with some fun ones ... here's a start:

Why cutaway? It's only line twists.

I just planned to jump once.

Here, hold my beer. Watch this!



Loved once, Sister died... heart broken.
























Where's my bag of jelly beans?
"Buttons aren't toys." - Trillian
Ken

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Of course the true beauty of the original ""For sale: baby shoes, never worn." is that it tells a story. Not a complete story by any means, but from the words you know FAR more of the story than JUST the words, but of course, not much more.

You know that somebody was expecting a baby to wear some shoes and that for some reason the baby never wore the shoes. You can almost think this is because the baby died before learning to walk or perhaps that the baby was lost at birth or maybe the mother died before giving birth to the child. Of course it's just as possible that there was a friend that had intented on giving the shoes to the mother as a present and for some reason decided not to. Maybe they parted ways for some reason.

I think a far more interesting competition would be to make up a story as to why the shoes are for sale.
quade -
The World's Most Boring Skydiver

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Happy feet, grass kissing bare soles

Tiny toes, wriggle free, unconfined happiness

Shoes not needed, Dancing on Air


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IUFD. Four devastating letters. Painful loss.

Empty arms. No solace. The loss.

No happy memories. Only shattered dreams.

Still to be born. No life.

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Of course the true beauty of the original ""For sale: baby shoes, never worn." is that it tells a story. Not a complete story by any means, but from the words you know FAR more of the story than JUST the words, but of course, not much more.

You know that somebody was expecting a baby to wear some shoes and that for some reason the baby never wore the shoes. You can almost think this is because the baby died before learning to walk or perhaps that the baby was lost at birth or maybe the mother died before giving birth to the child. Of course it's just as possible that there was a friend that had intented on giving the shoes to the mother as a present and for some reason decided not to. Maybe they parted ways for some reason.

I think a far more interesting competition would be to make up a story as to why the shoes are for sale.



WalMart has sale. Lost shoe receipt.

But you have to understand, mental illness is like cholesterol. There is the good kind and the bad. Without the good kind- less flavor to life. - Serge A. Storms

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