Wired's "Very Short Stories"

Wired has put up the link to its "Very Short Stories" collection of 6-word stories that I referred to the other day. It includes the 33 printed stories, plus another 59 published on the web only. (thx, ingen angiven)


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Submitted by crazymonk on Wed, 10/25/2006 - 8:53am.

I like Margaret Atwood's the best.

Too many deal with time travel and David Brin wrote far too many.

The Rodenator | Wed, 10/25/2006 - 9:03am

It's Wired, you have to expect a certain (large) percentage of sci-fi/nerdy jokes. Time travel, computers, AI... whatever. Anyway, I'm giving Alan Moore credit for the best time travel one:

Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time
- Alan Moore

Ingen Angiven | Wed, 10/25/2006 - 9:29am

Margaret Atwood's is the plot of every third chick lit novel.

Lorelei | Wed, 10/25/2006 - 10:12am

Can you describe the plots of the other two kinds of chick lit novels in six words?

crazymonk | Wed, 10/25/2006 - 10:13am

Hmm. Not nearly as cleverly as Atwood. A synopsis ain't a story.

Career girl frets over boy, body.

Lorelei | Wed, 10/25/2006 - 11:05am

Pretty good. One more...

crazymonk | Wed, 10/25/2006 - 11:13am

Female friend steals boy, hate them.

Ingen Angiven | Wed, 10/25/2006 - 11:27am

Which shoes should I wear? Loneliness.

Los Angeles Anthony | Wed, 10/25/2006 - 11:58am

World unfriendly to women... sex change?

Ingen Angiven | Wed, 10/25/2006 - 12:48pm

Chocolate won't solve family/career conflict.

Lorelei | Wed, 10/25/2006 - 12:00pm

Sofia Coppola stole my movie idea.

Jesse | Wed, 10/25/2006 - 2:44pm

yeah, it's weird how many deal with time travel, the end of the world, and bush/iraq.

a lot of them just read like funny headlines or something. but some are pretty good.

the Lampoon published a little book of little stories or something that's fucked up and hilarious. i have it somewhere in a drawer.

jbg | Thu, 10/26/2006 - 2:02pm

ps. "girl takes antidepressants, doesn't work. finds man, does."

jbg | Thu, 10/26/2006 - 2:05pm

That's eight, JBG.

The Rodenator | Thu, 10/26/2006 - 2:19pm

8 AND a contraction.

Ingen Angiven | Fri, 10/27/2006 - 11:17am

ok, picky assholes.

girl needs antidepressants, finds man instead.

jbg. | Fri, 10/27/2006 - 11:51am
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