Stories Told in One Sentence

and the king cried,,CRAP,as 10 pairs of tin pants hit the floor.

Here's mine: "I sat in the bar, surrounded by people, and completely alone."

Hemingway wrote one of the most elegant stories in just six words.

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if you like this kind of thing, you should check out the work of amy hempel

thanks for sharing that, Ray. the story is what immediately came to my mind, but for the life of me, i couldn't remember the author or the six words. i also thought of Ali's "Me?... WE."

organ donors must die

True, true. They must.

Ray, that's what I was thinking, too.

He did always say he considered it to be his best work.

gahhh...I had to stop reading that website because the grammar problems were driving me crazy! This was the only one I really liked:

I don't think "Whoa" is a standard response to "I love you," but it was the only one I could come up with at the time.

haha ouch

Bathroom Reader had a blurb of six word stories by famous authors.... inspired by the Hemingway short. Can't remember them off the top of my head, but there were a couple good ones.

#3 Ray - powerful and eloquent; if anyone is interested in following up on this, check out http://www.smithmag.net/sixwords/

What went up, did come down, hard.

I posted this a while ago, but I'll re-post it for you guy:

I panicked, thinking my precious fluffy cat had a tumor, until I realized he just had a Cocoa Puff stuck to his ass.

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Thank you so much for that.

@ Paul - 'being alone' among a croud is like one of the biggest cliches ever. >.<

One line from a Sisters of Mercy song always struck me as a cool one-sentence story.

"I was fine until I hit the floor."

Irvine Welsh author of Trainspotting once wrote a one sentense story.

Robert K. Laird a Sexual History.

"Rab's nivir hud a ride in ehs puff; perr wee c*nt,disnaae seem too bothered mind."

In August, 2008 I submitted:

Qweebo
In Target earlier today I learned there is really no good way to answer a 5-year-old asking you why you are looking at his mother's butt so much.

I still don't have a good answer.

Eight ferrets later, I found out I was pregnant.

--TwoDragons

I wrote a six-word story recently:

She speaks English. I speak binary.

-Jonathan Shepherd

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