For those of you who haven't been checking out Neil Gaiman's journal on a regular basis like you should, you might not know about Wired magazine's challenge that was sent out to genre and SF writers recently: "Give us your best 6-word short, short story!" The results are quite entertaining, I think! A few personal favourites:
Alan Moore: Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time
Charles Stross: Osama’s time machine: President Gore concerned.
Steven Meretzky: I win lottery. Sun goes nova.
Steven Meretzky: Leia: "Baby's yours." Luke: "Bad news…"
And I can't resist adding my own contributions (just to prove I can be brief, if only just this once):
Kimota94 aka Matt: Turns out, the power was on!
Kimota94 aka Matt: Which one's the brake again, daddy?
Kimota94 aka Matt: You've got me? Who's got you? (OK, I stole that one!)
I don't understand the Alan Moore one.
ReplyDeleteRead it starting with the second word, and then put the first word at the end. The speaker's apparently caught in a time loop as a result of his amazing success as an inventor.
ReplyDeletewow that's too clever for me!
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