Very Short Stories

By The Game on Oct 26, 2006 in Comics, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Web Meme

Andy Looney enjoys writing stories exactly 55 words long and calls them Nanofiction.

Well, Wired took the concept every further and asked a number of famous authors (mainly from Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Comics) and asked them to write 6 word short stories. They cite an idea from Ernest Hemmingway as their inspiration.

You can check out the whole list on Wired’s blog.

One of my favorites:

God to Earth: “Cry more, noobs!”
- Marc Laidlaw

Reminds me of a part from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy:

“We apologize for the inconvenience”, God’s Final Message to His Creation, written in letters of fire on the side of the Quentulus Quazgar Mountains, Sevorbeupstry, on planet Preliumtarn, Galactic Sector QQ7 Active J Gamma. - c. 40

4 Responses to “Very Short Stories”

  1. AvatarElena99
    Posted: Oct 26th, 2006 at 8:43 pm
    1

    I love these.
  2. AvatarOriginal Sultan
    Posted: Oct 27th, 2006 at 2:23 pm
    2

    “It cost too much, staying human.”

    Probably my favorite. I immediately imagined a scene not unlike the end of House of the Dead, where the bad guy explains why he decided to become a zombie.
  3. AvatarBartoneus
    Posted: Oct 30th, 2006 at 2:37 pm
    3

    From the comments on slash-dot:

    Heaven falls. Details at eleven.
    – Robert Jordan

    Fucker can’t even finish a 6 word story. Guess we’ll have to buy the sequel….
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