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6 Word Short Stories

Posted in Classics by Elliott Back on October 25th, 2006.

Failed SAT. Lost scholarship. Invented rocket. ~ William Shatner

Computer, did we bring batteries? Computer? ~ Eileen Gunn

Gown removed carelessly. Head, less so. ~ Joss Whedon

With bloody hands, I say good-bye. ~ Frank Miller

Epitaph: Foolish humans, never escaped Earth. ~ Vernor Vinge

We kissed. She melted. Mop please! ~ James Patrick Kelly

I’m dead. I’ve missed you. Kiss … ? ~ Neil Gaiman

The baby’s blood type? Human, mostly. ~ Orson Scott Card

TIME MACHINE REACHES FUTURE!!! … nobody there … ~ Harry Harrison

Tick tock tick tock tick tick. ~ Neal Stephenson

Epitaph: He shouldn’t have fed it. ~ Brian Herbert

Nevertheless, he tried a third time. ~ James P. Blaylock

I saw, darling, but do lie. ~ Orson Scott Card

We crossed the border; they killed us. ~ Howard Waldrop

He read his obituary with confusion. ~ Steven Meretzky

Kudos to Wired.

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