6 word stories
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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.
~http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/sixwords.html
tait's favs:
Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time
- Alan Moore
Longed for him. Got him. Shit.
- Margaret Atwood
From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.
- Gregory Maguire
It cost too much, staying human.
- Bruce Sterling
It’s behind you! Hurry before it
- Rockne S. O’Bannon
The baby’s blood type? Human, mostly.
- Orson Scott Card
To save humankind he died again.
- Ben Bova
Epitaph: He shouldn't have fed it.
- Brian Herbert
Please, this is everything, I swear.
- Orson Scott Card
~http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/sixwords.html
tait's favs:
Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time
- Alan Moore
Longed for him. Got him. Shit.
- Margaret Atwood
From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.
- Gregory Maguire
It cost too much, staying human.
- Bruce Sterling
It’s behind you! Hurry before it
- Rockne S. O’Bannon
The baby’s blood type? Human, mostly.
- Orson Scott Card
To save humankind he died again.
- Ben Bova
Epitaph: He shouldn't have fed it.
- Brian Herbert
Please, this is everything, I swear.
- Orson Scott Card