Jan 142007
That’s the best I can do so far.
Wired has a little bit on 6 word stories. They collected some from various authors.
I’ll steal/share them:
- William Shatner: Failed SAT. Lost scholarship. Invented rocket.
- Eileen Gunn: Computer, did we bring batteries? Computer?
- David Brin: Vacuum collision. Orbits diverge. Farewell, love.
- Joss Whedon: Gown removed carelessly. Head, less so.
- Stan Lee: Automobile warranty expires. So does engine.
- Alan Moore: machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time
- Gregory Maguire: From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.
- Margaret Atwood: Longed for him. Got him. Shit.
- Rudy Rucker: His penis snapped off; he’s pregnant!
- Frank Miller: With bloody hands, I say goodbye.
- Charles Stross: Internet “Wakes up?” Ridicu – No Carrier.
- Steven Meretzky: Wasted day. Wasted life. Dessert please.
- Ronald D. Moore: “Cellar?” “Gate to uh…hell, actually.”
- Vernor Vinge: Epitaph: Foolish humans, never escaped Earth.
- Bruce Sterling: It cost too much staying human.
- James Patrick Kelly: We kissed. She melted. More please.
- Rockne S. O’Bannon: It’s be hind you! Hurry before it
- Stephen Baxter: I’m your future child. Don’t cry.
- Michael Moorcock: 1940: Young Hitler! Such a cantor!
- Richard Powers: Lie detector eyeglasses perfected. Civilization collapses.
- Neil Gaiman: I’m dead. I’ve missed you. Kiss…?
- Orson Scott Card: The baby’s blood type? Human, mostly.
- Kevin Smith: Kirby had never eaten toes before.
- Howard Waldrop: Rained, rained, rained, and never stopped.
- Ben Bova: To save humankind, he died again.
- Ken MacLeod: We went solar; sun went nova.
- Paul Di Filippo: Husband, transgenic mistress; wife: “You cow!”
- Howard Chaykin: I couldn’t believe she’d shoot me.
- Stephen R. Donaldson: Don’t marry her. Buy a house.
- Mark Millar: Broken heart, 45, WLTM disabled man.
- Harry Harrison: TIME MACHINE REACHES FUTURE!!! … nobody there…
- Neal Stephenson: Tick tock tick tock tick tick.
- Ursula K. LeGuin: Easy. Just touch the match to
What’s yours?
since no story to tell – i’ll share one of my favorite simpson’s episodes in 6 words: repeat.
rotting sammich, gulp. ugghhhh.
favorite 6 word story was atwood’s.
my fave was also atwood’s.
“Chess? Hell no. Global thermonuclear war.”
(what movie? what movie?)
war games would be my guess.
i thought atwood’s would be a hit. i liked Alan Moore’s (clever and 6 words…) and Card’s and Donaldson’s of course.
A robot from the past? Yes.
Form the Wired ones, I’m partial to Alan Moore’s, but I love time travel.
saddest story ever: waited 2 hours. dimsum cart empty.