Wired's Very Short Story.

Posted by Alex in Movies & SciFi on October 25, 2006 at 12:02 am


Wired Magazine wrote that Hemingway once wrote a story (his best, he said) in just six words (”For sale: baby shoes, never worn”). So they asked sci-fi writers to do the same. Here are some of the gems:


Longed for him. Got him. Shit.
- Margaret Atwood

We kissed. She melted. Mop please!
- James Patrick Kelly

Don’t marry her. Buy a house.
- Stephen R. Donaldson

Cryonics: Disney thawed. Mickey gnawed. Omigawd.
- Eileen Gunn

Leia: “Baby’s yours.” Luke: “Bad news…”
- Steven Meretzky

Link | Quite a bit more, some very clever, at Metafilter.


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3 comments to "Wired's Very Short Story."

  1. ted
    October 25th, 2006 at 9:41 am

    Margaret Atwood writes one anti-male dystopian novel, and she's classed as a sci-fi writer?
    And there she goes bashing men in her six-word blurb.

    I liked the Luke & Leia one.

  2. Kacie
    October 25th, 2006 at 12:44 pm

    Margaret Atwood has written much more than the governmental satire of which you speak , although I still would not classify her works as "science fiction."

  3. v.dog
    October 25th, 2006 at 1:31 pm

    "We kissed. She melted. Mop please!"

    Brilliant.


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