Topic: For sale: baby shoes, never used, Or the six word story thread (Read 13860 times)

Hairy Joe Bob · « **Reply #50 on:** 16 Dec 2010, 17:50 »

"Don't dare tell your mother, darling..."

Spluff · « **Reply #51 on:** 16 Dec 2010, 18:07 »

What is this I don't even

jwhouk · « **Reply #52 on:** 16 Dec 2010, 18:16 »

He came. He saw. He lost.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #53 on:** 16 Dec 2010, 18:19 »

Fuck, stabbed by my own sword

This day just keeps getting worse

Jimor · « **Reply #54 on:** 16 Dec 2010, 18:25 »

"I wonder what happens when I..."

celticgeek · « **Reply #55 on:** 16 Dec 2010, 18:29 »

Here, hold my beer. Watch this...

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #56 on:** 16 Dec 2010, 18:30 »

The ink just won't come out

Jimor · « **Reply #57 on:** 16 Dec 2010, 18:44 »

Never again. Well, maybe once more.

tHEfOOL · « **Reply #58 on:** 16 Dec 2010, 18:56 »

On his knees, he uses wakizashi

jwhouk · « **Reply #59 on:** 16 Dec 2010, 19:24 »

And then, the trouble really began.

tHEfOOL · « **Reply #60 on:** 16 Dec 2010, 20:00 »

as it pertains to my avatar:

HI FLOOR! MAKE ME A SAMMICH!!!

honestly says a lot about G.I.R.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #61 on:** 16 Dec 2010, 20:03 »

The condom had holes in it

I really hate my step mom

JD · « **Reply #62 on:** 16 Dec 2010, 20:15 »

While he ranted, we swapped spit.

Melodic · « **Reply #63 on:** 16 Dec 2010, 20:23 »

Quote from: jwhouk on 16 Dec 2010, 19:24

And then, the trouble really began.

isn't the idea of a six-word story that it be a simple concept with allusions to much more complex ideas? this doesn't really do that.

EDIT: i mean, it's the one that stood out reading this thread. maybe i'm wrong! maybe it can be whatever you want it to be! don't let me stifle your creativity!

Nodaisho · « **Reply #64 on:** 16 Dec 2010, 20:34 »

Quote from: Ptommydski on 16 Dec 2010, 12:48

Quote from: David_Dovey on 16 Dec 2010, 08:38
Just to be a dick, kerbled.

Six words, that is truly brilliant.

Excuse me sir, fixed your post.

Buttfranklin · « **Reply #65 on:** 16 Dec 2010, 20:43 »

Quote from: Melodic on 16 Dec 2010, 20:23

Quote from: jwhouk on 16 Dec 2010, 19:24
And then, the trouble really began.

isn't the idea of a six-word story that it be a simple concept with allusions to much more complex ideas? this doesn't really do that.

EDIT: i mean, it's the one that stood out reading this thread. maybe i'm wrong! maybe it can be whatever you want it to be! don't let me stifle your creativity!

How to backtrack elegantly and politely.

JD · « **Reply #66 on:** 16 Dec 2010, 20:47 »

Mr Senator, you are a douchebag.

KickThatBathProf · « **Reply #67 on:** 16 Dec 2010, 20:49 »

you can't count, [...]

Quote from: Nodaisho on 16 Dec 2010, 20:34

Quote from: Ptommydski on 16 Dec 2010, 12:48
Quote from: David_Dovey on 16 Dec 2010, 08:38
Just to be a dick, kerbled.

Six words, that is truly brilliant.
Excuse me sir, fixed your post.

neither can you

Nodaisho · « **Reply #68 on:** 16 Dec 2010, 20:58 »

Try counting again. You fucked up.

look out! Ninjas! · « **Reply #69 on:** 16 Dec 2010, 21:07 »

Don't point that at my face.

Ballard · « **Reply #70 on:** 16 Dec 2010, 21:09 »

Quote from: pwhodges on 16 Dec 2010, 14:38

I had TB many years ago.

TB was unable to kill me.

Finally moderator. Operation Historical Revisionism: go

Maybe someday, legitimate cult of personality.

tHEfOOL · « **Reply #71 on:** 16 Dec 2010, 21:23 »

babies for sale, only slightly used

Ozymandias · « **Reply #72 on:** 16 Dec 2010, 21:46 »

The wood burned; so did I.

tHEfOOL · « **Reply #73 on:** 16 Dec 2010, 22:06 »

There was fire, it was hot.

est · « **Reply #74 on:** 16 Dec 2010, 22:55 »

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?

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.

Ballard · « **Reply #75 on:** 16 Dec 2010, 23:27 »

That got me thinking. Since newspaper headlines are pretty much exclusively sensational today, would it be more effective to write really mundane headlines?

Honestly, at this point I think I'm ten times more likely to pick up a newspaper that said "I don't know why I did that" than "Area man murders family in FourLoko fueled rampage" just out of sheer novelty.

Okay, this may be a flawed example.

Yayniall · « **Reply #76 on:** 17 Dec 2010, 02:43 »

Let the bodies hit the floor.

jwhouk · « **Reply #77 on:** 17 Dec 2010, 07:19 »

Mom offered to kill my ex.

valley_parade · « **Reply #78 on:** 17 Dec 2010, 07:45 »

This shirt is not ironic, dammit

(Damn you, Tim Thomas)

blanktom · « **Reply #79 on:** 17 Dec 2010, 08:01 »

Ties round heads, office rebellion begins.

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #80 on:** 17 Dec 2010, 10:25 »

Ironically, rabies saved our dying society.

Johnny C · « **Reply #81 on:** 17 Dec 2010, 10:28 »

Quote from: Yayniall on 17 Dec 2010, 02:43

Let the bodies hit the floor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uguXNL93fWg

Johnny C · « **Reply #82 on:** 17 Dec 2010, 10:29 »

what i just posted is maybe my favourite youtube of the year

Elysiana · « **Reply #83 on:** 17 Dec 2010, 10:36 »

I've been telling everyone I want to get a bird for the SOLE PURPOSE of training it to do that.

tHEfOOL · « **Reply #84 on:** 17 Dec 2010, 13:03 »

Cleaning dirty rooms, dust in nose.

mberan42 · « **Reply #85 on:** 17 Dec 2010, 13:33 »

This aggression will not stand, man.

NotAFanOfFenders · « **Reply #86 on:** 17 Dec 2010, 14:12 »

Man, everybody got AIDS and shit

JD · « **Reply #87 on:** 17 Dec 2010, 14:50 »

You are tearing me apart Lisa.

Ballard · « **Reply #88 on:** 17 Dec 2010, 14:53 »

Now with entirely gratuitous brostep remix.

KickThatBathProf · « **Reply #89 on:** 17 Dec 2010, 15:02 »

Quote from: Nodaisho on 16 Dec 2010, 20:58

Try counting again. You fucked up.

I am not going to argue.

Nodaisho · « **Reply #90 on:** 17 Dec 2010, 15:27 »

That is because you are wrong.

Lunchbox · « **Reply #91 on:** 17 Dec 2010, 15:30 »

Once again it has happened, friends.

Six word story thread has failed.

None of these posts are stories.

They are posts with six words.

Should we bother trying this again?

pwhodges · « **Reply #92 on:** 17 Dec 2010, 16:18 »

...useless.

Graphite · « **Reply #93 on:** 17 Dec 2010, 17:47 »

She could fly, but not swim.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #94 on:** 18 Dec 2010, 02:12 »

Quote from: Lunchbox on 17 Dec 2010, 15:30

Once again it has happened, friends.

Six word story thread has failed.

None of these posts are stories.

They are posts with six words.

Should we bother trying this again?

Six Word stories? A forum divided.

jwhouk · « **Reply #95 on:** 18 Dec 2010, 02:53 »

Six words 140 characters not enough.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #96 on:** 18 Dec 2010, 11:16 »

But first you will blow me

Johnny C · « **Reply #97 on:** 18 Dec 2010, 12:02 »

Mountains were nice, ocean was nicer.

Johnny C · « **Reply #98 on:** 18 Dec 2010, 12:02 »

Honestly? She couldn't wait til takeoff.

Johnny C · « **Reply #99 on:** 18 Dec 2010, 12:03 »

Real squirrels. And there were thousands.

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