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News Type: Opinion — Fri Oct 27, 2006 1:48 PM EDT
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I've been writing a lot about six-word science fiction stories on my publishing site this week.
You see, Wired magazine hired a few of the best science fiction writers in the whole world, making them write little bitty six-word science fiction stories. Shortest fiction, if you will.
Anyway, here's my six-word story: Exhausted writer flees on lovely rocketship
I think everybody should chip in with a short short short science fiction story. It's like doing push-ups with your brain. And more importantly, we can publish the world's smallest anthology and retire to some tropical island with the proceeds.
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{"commentId":350150,"authorDomain":"gnoleb"}
I finally asked; she didn't answer.
My favorite is still Frank Miller's
With bloodied hands, I say goodbye.
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- 5 votes
#26 - Sat Oct 28, 2006 12:01 AM EDT{"commentId":350174,"authorDomain":"azsky13"}
Metalic eyes stared blankly at nothing.
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- 4 votes
#27 - Sat Oct 28, 2006 12:38 AM EDT{"commentId":350181,"authorDomain":"elliearroway"}
Human voices had been silenced forever.
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- 5 votes
#28 - Sat Oct 28, 2006 12:49 AM EDT{"commentId":350802,"authorDomain":"jasonboog"}
{"commentId":350198,"authorDomain":"ansab"}
Promiscuous pandas experiment heavily with bioengineering.
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- 10 votes
#29 - Sat Oct 28, 2006 1:41 AM EDT{"commentId":350215,"authorDomain":"nck"}
Pandas Prosper Where Others Often Fail;
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- 8 votes
{"commentId":350654,"authorDomain":"ansab"}
The Pants will revolt once again
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- 6 votes
{"commentId":350782,"authorDomain":"ansab"}
Keep the pajamas on the pandas
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- 5 votes
{"commentId":352837,"authorDomain":"nck"}
Pandas Prancing in the Pajama Parade
Whoops! Where did their Pajamas Go?
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- 5 votes
{"commentId":353595,"authorDomain":"ansab"}
Pandas put pajamas on their heads.
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- 3 votes
{"commentId":354594,"authorDomain":"nck"}
ha...ha...ha...ha...ha...ha...
I think that was 6, right?
Oh, and so was the second.
I'm sorry, I just had a visual Ansab!
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{"commentId":350253,"authorDomain":"BitterOldPunk"}
Immortality is inevitable, Methuselah thought smugly.
Maybe not SF enough. I'll try again.
He thought as he died, "Primes..."
Or maybe
Asteroid mines are really @!$%#ing dangerous.
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- 4 votes
#30 - Sat Oct 28, 2006 3:22 AM EDT{"commentId":350272,"authorDomain":"Condensed"}
World ends. Well blow me down!
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- 7 votes
#31 - Sat Oct 28, 2006 4:13 AM EDT{"commentId":350624,"authorDomain":"Ardith"}
{"commentId":350320,"authorDomain":"datumax"}
Nuclear Missiles Will be Landing Shortly.
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- 4 votes
#32 - Sat Oct 28, 2006 11:38 AM EDT{"commentId":350341,"authorDomain":"djin"}
Parasites Creep From Below The Ground
The Keyboard Killed My Biological Parents
Someone Stole My Favorite Socks...Gremlins!
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- 3 votes
#33 - Sat Oct 28, 2006 12:01 PM EDT{"commentId":350380,"authorDomain":"paddy"}
"But grandpa said it was blue!"
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- 6 votes
#35 - Sat Oct 28, 2006 12:42 PM EDT{"commentId":350515,"authorDomain":"nck"}
What Fun We Had; Now Over
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- 3 votes
#36 - Sat Oct 28, 2006 2:51 PM EDT{"commentId":350542,"authorDomain":"jasonboog"}
{"commentId":350582,"authorDomain":"nck"}
White Wine - Brandy - Cigar? Bad Combination?
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- 4 votes
{"commentId":350517,"authorDomain":"nck"}
All aboard; Trains, Planes, Water Boards?
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- 5 votes
#37 - Sat Oct 28, 2006 2:56 PM EDT{"commentId":350577,"authorDomain":"yasmin"}
Once upon a time Death smiled.
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- 7 votes
#38 - Sat Oct 28, 2006 3:44 PM EDT{"commentId":350632,"authorDomain":"nck"}
Death slowly turned toward him: GOTCHA!
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- 9 votes
{"commentId":350655,"authorDomain":"ansab"}
Monkeys experimenting with highly unstable radioactivity
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- 5 votes
#39 - Sat Oct 28, 2006 5:23 PM EDT{"commentId":350714,"authorDomain":"warners"}
Piercing screams from mouthless faces come.
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- 2 votes
#40 - Sat Oct 28, 2006 6:20 PM EDT{"commentId":350805,"authorDomain":"jasonboog"}
{"commentId":350715,"authorDomain":"warners"}
Bloody tears escape from irisless eyes.
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- 3 votes
#41 - Sat Oct 28, 2006 6:21 PM EDT{"commentId":350970,"authorDomain":"yasmin"}
Lifeless on the checkered floor, Malibu Barbie.
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- 3 votes
{"commentId":350973,"authorDomain":"warners"}
[laughs]
Are you making fun of me?
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":350997,"authorDomain":"yasmin"}
No! I swear it was the first thing that popped in my head. :p
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- 3 votes
{"commentId":350722,"authorDomain":"warners"}
Swallowed unknown seeds, what will become?
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- 3 votes
#42 - Sat Oct 28, 2006 6:26 PM EDT{"commentId":350724,"authorDomain":"warners"}
Gnarled vines slithering from orifices swiftly.
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- 3 votes
#43 - Sat Oct 28, 2006 6:27 PM EDT{"commentId":350735,"authorDomain":"warners"}
With predagogues chasing she becomes empowered.
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- 3 votes
#44 - Sat Oct 28, 2006 6:33 PM EDT{"commentId":350741,"authorDomain":"chill888"}
rwarner
more fun when u give it one good attempt not a scattershot
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- 4 votes
#45 - Sat Oct 28, 2006 6:37 PM EDT{"commentId":350763,"authorDomain":"warners"}
pardon moi, so sorry I wrote one and they kept coming to me. Won't happen again. I really didn't feel they were scatter-shot though. Anyway, I apologize.
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- 4 votes
{"commentId":350807,"authorDomain":"jasonboog"}
{"commentId":350753,"authorDomain":"JBlack"}
My wife came up with:
All men saved by a woman.
{"commentId":350753,"threadId":"50453","contentId":"417480","authorDomain":"JBlack"}
- 6 votes
#46 - Sat Oct 28, 2006 6:45 PM EDT{"commentId":350814,"authorDomain":"jasonboog"}
Thanks to everybody who came out writing so far. It's really cool to scroll through this homemade anthology of 6-word stories. I'll be linking to the whole story list on my publishing blog tomorrow. This is such a great show of community writing chops. It's been fun...
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- 3 votes
#47 - Sat Oct 28, 2006 7:32 PM EDT{"commentId":350968,"authorDomain":"clearcache"}
With a click we were deleted.
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- 4 votes
#48 - Sat Oct 28, 2006 10:15 PM EDT{"commentId":350975,"authorDomain":"warners"}
oooh, thats a good one.
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- 3 votes
{"commentId":351000,"authorDomain":"clearcache"}
Yeah - this was a fun exercise. I haven't done any creative writing since ... filling out my taxes last year.
{"commentId":351000,"threadId":"50453","contentId":"417480","authorDomain":"clearcache"}
- 4 votes
{"commentId":351010,"authorDomain":"Sarcophilus"}
memoirs of a deleted meme
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- 3 votes
{"commentId":351441,"authorDomain":"jasonboog"}
{"commentId":350993,"authorDomain":"Sarcophilus"}
do we have to count articles?
[the] Lizard-men [of] Xenor Felled [by a] Blind Assassin
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- 3 votes
#49 - Sat Oct 28, 2006 10:30 PM EDT{"commentId":351004,"authorDomain":"warners"}
I've been counting articles, but not counting them is fun too. Good one.
{"commentId":351004,"threadId":"50453","contentId":"417480","authorDomain":"warners"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":351439,"authorDomain":"jasonboog"}
{"commentId":351109,"authorDomain":"georgejmyersjr"}
Earth cracks, Moon swings, humans left?
Asteroid hit, becomes bit, end story.
Zero ground, time shift, Foghorn's Freehold.
Sun spits, Earth tips, mammals rumble.
Venus wakes, Earth quakes, Poles spoil.
Clarke predicts, 2001 hits, memory forever.
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- 5 votes
#50 - Sun Oct 29, 2006 12:47 AM EDT{"commentId":351834,"authorDomain":"tromba"}
Here's one:
Discovered too late: aliens eat us.
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- 4 votes
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