Very Short Stories
Wired asked a bunch of genre writers to come up with a story of exactly 6 words. Here is a sampling:
- Computer, did we bring batteries? Computer? (Eileen Gunn)
- Gown removed carelessly. Head, less so. (Joss Whedon)
- Epitaph: Foolish humans, never escaped Earth. (Vernor Vinge)
- We went solar; sun went nova. (Ken MacLeod)
- Don’t marry her. Buy a house. (Stephen R. Donaldson)
- TIME MACHINE REACHES FUTURE!!! …nobody there… (Harry Harrison)
- whorl. Help! I’m caught in a time (Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel)