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For sale: baby shoes, never used, Or the six word story thread
Ballard:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 16 Dec 2010, 14:38 ---I had TB many years ago.
TB was unable to kill me.
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Finally moderator. Operation Historical Revisionism: go
Maybe someday, legitimate cult of personality.
tHEfOOL:
babies for sale, only slightly used
Ozymandias:
The wood burned; so did I.
tHEfOOL:
There was fire, it was hot.
est:
--- Quote from: Melodic on 16 Dec 2010, 20:23 ---Isn't the idea of a six-word story that it be a simple concept with allusions to much more complex ideas?
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To be fair the concept in itself is pretty pretentious. The Hemmingway story cheats by appealing to emotion and leaving people to fill in he gaps. It is a classified or a headline, not a story. In order to write anything that evokes something else in such a small space you have to allude to certain emotionally powerful things like love, death, sex, danger, etc. and usually in a cliched way that people will immediately understand.
Area man seeks soul mate, lubricant.
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