Short, Sweet & to the Point
Dan Rubin of Bling pens a prosaic post about the shortest tale ever told. In Writes Fast With A Dog Underneath, Rubin explains:
Tell your tale in six words? Wired enlisted 38 writers and designers. They were inspired by Hemingway's briefest.
As Wired said in Very Short Stories:
We'll be brief: 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. So we asked sci-fi, fantasy, and horror writers from the realms of books, TV, movies, and games to take a shot themselves.
A few of my favorites:
Longed for him. Got him. Shit.
- Margaret Atwood
Wasted day. Wasted life. Dessert, please.
- Steven MeretzkyHeaven falls. Details at eleven.
- Robert JordanBush told the truth. Hell froze.
- William GibsonThought I was right. I wasn't.
- Graeme GibsonLost, then found. Too bad.
- Graeme GibsonWill this do (lazy writer asked)?
- Ken MacLeodSteve ignores editor's word limit and
- Steven Meretzky
And my own contribution:
A few zig-zags, a different life.
~~~
This one's for Lee.
2 comments:
Wasn't trying for prosaic. Was trying for six words in each sentence. I should have stuck with the usual poetry.
Declared war. Lost. I'm sorry, George.
Of course, you'll never see it written.
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