Memoirs of an Endless Existence
"Memory's a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past." - Julie Delpy in "Before Sunset (2004)"
23 June 2007
Six words
"For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Worn"

Back in the 1920's, a young newspaperman bet his colleagues $10 - a princely in those days - that he could write a complete story in just 6 words.

Ernest Hemingway later bragged that the six words above constituted one of his greatest stories.

Flash fiction, characterized by extreme brevity, is a piece of fiction less than 1,000 words long. The above-mentioned flash is a result of this concept taken to its extreme.

Other authors decided to take a shot themselves. The result is compiled at http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/sixwords.html . Here are a few of my other favorites:

Computer, did we bring batteries? Computer?
- Eileen Gunn

It cost too much, staying human.
- Bruce Sterling

Don’t marry her. Buy a house.
- Stephen R. Donaldson

TIME MACHINE REACHES FUTURE!!! … nobody there …
- Harry Harrison

New genes demand expression -- third eye.
- Greg Bear

I saw, darling, but do lie.
- Orson Scott Card

Will this do (lazy writer asked)?
- Ken MacLeod

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