Arts Stories, In Brief
posted by on October 26 at 13:03 PM
Inspired by Ernest Hemingway’s six-word story (“For sale: baby shoes, never worn”), Wired Magazine asked sci-fi, fantasy and horror writers to come up with six-word stories of their own. Here are some of my favorites:
Computer, did we bring batteries? Computer?
- Eileen Gunn
Gown removed carelessly. Head, less so.
- Joss Whedon
Longed for him. Got him. Shit.
- Margaret Atwood
“Cellar?” “Gate to, uh … hell, actually.”
- Ronald D. Moore
Epitaph: Foolish humans, never escaped Earth.
- Vernor Vinge
It cost too much, staying human.
- Bruce Sterling
We kissed. She melted. Mop please!
- James Patrick Kelly
It’s behind you! Hurry before it
- Rockne S. O’Bannon
I’m your future, child. Don’t cry.
- Stephen Baxter
He read his obituary with confusion.
- Steven Meretzky
The baby’s blood type? Human, mostly.
- Orson Scott Card
TIME MACHINE REACHES FUTURE!!! … nobody there …
- Harry Harrison
I saw, darling, but do lie.
- Orson Scott Card
Bush told the truth. Hell froze.
- William Gibson
I liked those, too.
We tore it down. Seattle crumbled.
- Gomez
Wow, those are great. Captures the spirit of haiku (better than most of the pathetic doggerel haiku no better than limericks)
That robot chick is a dude!
Cool! ADD literature. Liked Sterling's, Gibson's.
Bush in Iraq, as Inspired by The Diaries of Julius Cesar:
I came. I saw. Conquered? No.
Nuclear proliferation - somebody slipped. Um, Oops?
Neocon victory, theocratic rule. Goodbye, America.
My favourite comment on this, courtesy of Slashdot:
Not much to read, is there?
I'm a nutcase. The Mormon kind.
- Orson Scott Card
Shut up, Gore explained. Debate's over.
That second one of Card's coulda been plagiarized from Ovid's Cures for Love!
(Um. Which I just read today, which is the only reason I know that.)
October brings clouds. Seattle enters coffeehouses.
Was he a she or it?
Is this really all there is?
Fun,, but I've gotta rain on the parade here and say that almost none of these are stories... ;)
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