SIX-WORD STORIES The challenge is to write Ultra-Short Stories to equal the famous six-worder:
For sale: baby shoes, never used.
—Ernest Hemingway
Firstly, because I simply had to go one better, my five-word version of The History Of All That Exists.
Chaos; miniscule order; development; universe.
There are, by the way, whole websites devoted to six-word stories, and some of the results are really excellent. Now, ten six-word short stories I have written:
‘Obituary? Did he ever achieve anything?’
The unfortunate accident took much planning.
Worked unceasingly, saved fanatically…died young.
Frogs croaked; pond drained; frogs ‘croaked’.
‘Creating havoc?’ ‘Yes; havoc good day!’
Awfully pretty wedding; pretty awfully married…
Bad actors actually murdered Julius Caesar.
‘You sure that altimeter is…aargh!’
He survived the war. She didn’t.
Troubled beginning; resolving development; happy ending.
In the next three, I have used a heading, but still counted it in as part of the six words.
I have come to realise that with some of mine (as with many found in the blogsites devoted to this ultra-flash-fiction) the result may give a twist, but that twist is simply a clever quip rather than something which actually creates a story in the mind.
I think the ideal should be to stimulate the imagination, so that it starts filling in background to create a story with characters, a beginning, middle and conclusion. The heading, if any, shouldn’t give it away at the start. Hopefully, these work on that level.
LIFE-SUPPORT
‘Tubey, or not to be…’
SOLVED
Accident? No. ‘She pushed him!’
LAST CHOICE
‘Red…?’ ‘Green!’ *snip* BOOM!
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Would you help please?
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LOL… the tubey one killed me…. 🙂
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Haha! Your response is SO appropriate!
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loved these.
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Most pleased you did!
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Very good!
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Some a bit weak, but it isn’t easy!
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I enjoyed these 🙂
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Pleased you found them entertaining!
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