Six Six Six
Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway considered his best work to be his shortest, a six-word story that went like this:
For sale: baby shoes, never worn.
Last November, Wired lined up a lot of writers to take a crack at the six-word short. In that vein, here are three such devilish, abbreviated tales for the Halloween season.
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“Let’s split up.” Later: “Nooo!” “Nooo!”
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The world ends not with a—.
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“Brains!”
“Brains!”
“Brains!”
BLAM!
BLAM!
Click.
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Comments
The brains-blam-click bit reminds me of Russian Roulette,except that the latter would be
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Love the “Brains” tale! Got an audible laugh and “oh no!” out of me, and that says a whole lot for six words!
Beth
This poses the question of, whether or not one could do a 6 Panel Comic? Not the daily type strips, but a 6 panel comic like a comic book.
Creepy, Brian.
I’m sure a six-panel comic could be done. An anthology of such would be a great exercise. Hmmm.
Great site you have here. I stumbled upon your blog looking up Ernest Hemingway. Thought you might be interested in an insightful interview about Papa from Bill Newmiller, president of the Hemingway Society.
http://darkpartyreview.blogspot.com/2007/10/5-questions-about-ernest-hemingway.html
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