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Issue 40 / January 2012

Six Word Stories

Ernest Hemmingway once bet $10 he could write a complete story in just six words. He proclaimed the result - 'For sale, baby shoes, never worn' - the best story he'd ever written. Can you do better? post your six word stories below, and the best one will win a bundle of books. Here are a few to get you started...

 

Holiday in Transylvania, night flight home.

 

Post-op transsexual, I haven't told him.

 

One bullet left in the chamber.

 

I came, I saw, I conquered.

 

Okay, that last one might have been around for a while...

 

Monday, 7 September, 2009

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