The first story was pretty good, even if it was an ad. The second story needs more information about who put the matches there.
The first story was pretty good, even if it was an ad. The second story needs more information about who put the matches there.
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Fredric Brown deliberately wrote the first two sentences of his short story "Knock" as a story by themselves:
The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door...
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I remember someone mentioning that one and someone else saying there was an even shorter SF story: "That morning the sun rose in the west."Originally Posted by Calidore
Doom-obsessed editor of Top Ten Short Stories: Doom
It got published!
http://nanoism.net/stories/667/
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Congratulations! I liked it.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Thanks, Calidore!
Now to try something longer.
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I liked it too. You have a good sense of humour.
An excellent little titbit - congratulations!
"I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance. And when I saw my devil, I found him serious, thorough, profound, solemn: he was the spirit of gravity- through him all things fall. Not by wrath, but by laughter, do we slay. Come, let us slay the spirit of gravity!" - Nietzsche
Wow, that is short! (I presume some people might question whether it tells enough of a story.) Where and when was it published?
Augusto Monterroso- The Complete Works and Other Stories.
A marvelous collection by the Guatemalan heir to/peer of J.L. Borges.
Beware of the man with just one book. -Ovid
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.- Mark Twain
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Thanks.
I almost forgot about this thread, but today I noticed Nicola Auckland's blog featuring weekly contests for the best six word story and remembered it. Her current prompt is "funny": https://nicolaauckland.com/2017/03/1...allenge-funny/ She also has an explanation of how to make such short stories: https://nicolaauckland.com/2016/09/1...-word-stories/
Congrats, Yes/No. I enjoyed mostly the biographical account of the author!
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"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
They limited the number of characters for that biography so I figured I best make it short and sweet.
Another micro nano short story thread.
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
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