Write a Six Word Short Story

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27 Oct 2010, 3:04 pm

I just read an old wired article with 6 word short stories, and so I figured this would make a good thread. The story must contain exactly 6 words. However it may contain multiple sentences numbers must be written out as words. Below are 2 examples that I was able to come up with. The original article can be found <HERE>.

Ex. 1: Six word stories, write one today.
Ex. 2: Robots attack; people are simply shocked.

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27 Oct 2010, 3:21 pm

One day, I was really bored

I hope there's something else coming

Bad people got shot by goodies

Today, I went on a trampoline

Circle of life, wheel of fortune

Six words really is not enough

Quote:

Longed for him. Got him. s**t.
- Margaret Atwood

Lol

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27 Oct 2010, 3:39 pm

Once upon a time, God farted.

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27 Oct 2010, 5:47 pm

He was eaten by a shark.

He cut the wrong detonator wire.

He said, "you won't shoot me."

He thought, "what does 'peligroso' mean?"

She thought, "Jeff Dahmer seems nice."

He thought, "ah, fugu is tasty."

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27 Oct 2010, 6:09 pm

wormsto reads thread on wrong planet.

bad people are bad, get shot.

man and woman fall in love.

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27 Oct 2010, 6:47 pm

wormsto wrote:

man and woman fall in love.

The perennial favourite, a big cliche

The hero's journey, the archetypal story

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27 Oct 2010, 7:03 pm

There once was an ugly barnacle (XD I just had to, it couldnt be helped >_>)

now as for actual 6 word stories....

One day jesus died, nobody cried.

Life, very much a complete paradox.

Someone truly missed the point of it.

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27 Oct 2010, 7:43 pm

pointblank writes without reading whole thread

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28 Oct 2010, 12:19 am

'A man, a plan, a canal, Panama' -

also works as a Palindrome...

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28 Oct 2010, 12:41 am

my favorite short story has only 2 words-

[chapter one] "coughin.'
[chapter two] "coffin."

my favorite haiku [3-word triplet form] is-

olestra and pampers
proctor and gamble
not a coincidence

other than these, in strict observance of the OP's request, here are-

caught robbing bank, sentenced and jailed.
saw prosty, caught aids and suffered.
was born, occupied space, died bored.
defective spacesuit, died on the moon.
ate badly, black stools, died suffering.
voted repub, got disenfranchised, just desserts.
we have the government we deserve.
man smokes, got cancer, died suffocating.
aspergers discovered, came to terms, equanimity.