Wednesday, 23 February 2011

A quick story...

In the 1920s, a friend of Ernest Hemingway bet him he couldn’t write a story in just six words.

Hemingway won the bet. What's more, he considered it his finest work.

For sale: baby shoes, never used.
- Ernest Hemingway





















Here are some more cheerful ones...

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

Longed for him. Got him. Shit.
- Margaret Atwood

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


Wasted day. Wasted life. Dessert, please.
- Steven Meretzky

“Cellar?” “Gate to, uh … hell, actually.”
- Ronald D. Moore

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

It’s behind you! Hurry before it
- Rockne S. O’Bannon

Lie detector eyeglasses perfected: Civilization collapses.
- Richard Powers

Rained, rained, rained, and never stopped.
- Howard Waldrop

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

Tick tock tick tock tick tick.
- Neal Stephenson

Heaven falls. Details at eleven.
- Robert Jordan

Bush told the truth. Hell froze.
- William Gibson

Dinosaurs return. Want their oil back.
- David Brin

Mind of its own. Damn lawnmower.
- David Brin

He read his obituary with confusion.
- Steven Meretzky

Dorothy: "Fuck it, I'll stay here."
- Steven Meretzky

Met my dream woman. Woke up.
- Ben Clapp

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