story time!

a re-post from October 31, 2006 (from my old blog)

very short stories.

Hemingway once wrote a story in six words ("For sale: baby shoes, never worn") and is said to have called it his best work. Here are some stories from well-known authors across genres and mediums.
- taken from "Very Short Stories". Wired Magazine. Nov. 2006.

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

Epitaph: Foolish humans, never escaped Earth.
- Vernor Vinge

IT'S BEHIND YOU! HURRY BEFORE IT

We went solar; the sun went nova.
- Ken MacLeod

To save human kind, he died again.
-Ben Bova

Lie detector eyeglasses perfected: Civilization collapses.
-Richard Powers

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

Nothing I did. Was a gift.
-JY

You can only use six words.
Meaning, only six worded comments accepted.
Okay, maybe not only, but try.