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    Posted 1 year ago Please login or join to Reply

    I read the story about Ernest Hemmingway when challenged to write a story in six words nailed it with;

    For Sale: Baby Shoes, never worn.

    The six words are quite eerie to me - of course it could also mean they were just never worn.

    Any chance we can have a competition sometime that is similar to this or maybe say ten words?

    Tom

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  • Diane Dickson Guest Editor
    Posted 1 year ago Please login or join to Reply

    Intriguing - Anne

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    Skating backwards on very thin ice

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    Very chilling, Diane.  How about:-

    He watched them find the body.

    They wouldn’t even let her take her coat.

    Best wishes.

  • Diane Dickson Guest Editor
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    Other side of the bed, cold.

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    Sorry for the multiple posts below!  I really did only mean to post once!

    I had trouble staying logged in earlier on so assumed what I had sent had not got through.  I guess it goes to show I shouldn’t assume anything!

    On the plus side, I swear I’ve not been on anything stronger than tea today, otherwise goodness knows how many posts I’d have sent!

    Kind regards to all.

  • Posted 1 year ago Please login or join to Reply

    Here are a few of my very short stories to add to the list.

    Get it wrong and he’d die.

    She decided to stop haunting him.

    The explosion solved their problems.

    He refused to cry again.

  • Posted 1 year ago Please login or join to Reply

    Here are a few of my very short stories to add to the list.

    Get it wrong and he’d die.

    She decided to stop haunting him.

    The explosion solved their problems.

    He refused to cry again.

  • Posted 1 year ago Please login or join to Reply

    Here are a few of my very short stories to add to the list.

    Get it wrong and he’d die.

    She decided to stop haunting him.

    The explosion solved their problems.

    He refused to cry again.

  • Posted 1 year ago Please login or join to Reply

    Here are a few of my very short stories to add to the list.

    Get it wrong and he’d die.

    She decided to stop haunting him.

    The explosion solved their problems.

    He refused to cry again.

  • Posted 1 year ago Please login or join to Reply

    Here are a few of my very short stories to add to the list.

    Get it wrong and he’d die.

    She decided to stop haunting him.

    The explosion solved their problems.

    He refused to cry again.

  • Posted 1 year ago Please login or join to Reply

    Here are a few of my very short stories to add to the list.

    Get it wrong and he’d die.

    She decided to stop haunting him.

    The explosion solved their problems.

    He refused to cry again.

  • Diane Dickson Guest Editor
    Posted 1 year ago Please login or join to Reply

    Okay the breaking off a romance theme

    “My order for roses, none today”

    The airplane one

    “The red light, it means nothing”

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    “Fittingly, she ate his eyes last.”

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    The story of my day -

    Rain fell from a cloudless sky.

  • David Appleby Guest Editor
    Posted 1 year ago Please login or join to Reply

    Hi Diane.

    Nice going!! You carried the topic to another direction…and that’s a very good six word story! So, with the airplane theme, I offer:

    “Regretfully, this is your pilot speaking.”

    With my original, ‘The Breakup,’ theme I should have been more specific. For kicks, try the theme: ‘Breaking off a Romance.’

    Here’s one. “I think we need to talk.” (My original, “Honey, it’s not you, it’s me.”— in the USA that’s already a cliche.)