The wonderful poet Luke Prater has a great post up about six-word stories, including a most famous and fantastic one by Ernest Hemingway, as well as some terrific ones of his own. I urge you to check out Luke’s post. (It also includes some of the background as to what makes these micro-fictions work.)
As for me – it’s been a very long day with lots of hours spent on the computer. A great night, in other words, to doodle on a yellow pad and scribble out something very very short. Here are a few of my attempts; each is separate.
I can imagine arranging each of these as poems – one can feel the line breaks in each. But for now, they are just short short stories. Even so, I am linking them to dVerse Poets Pub Open Link Night, hosted by Tashtoo!
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DNA conclusive. Thirty years too late.
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Learning to land didn’t concern him.
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Left all but clothes. Rental furnished.
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Life’s work lost. Chance for enlightenment.
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He didn’t mean it. Life sentence.
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Abstinence education. They both skipped class.
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p.s. several commenters have said Luke’s site has gotten infected with malware. Agh. Hopefully he’ll be able to get that fixed soon.
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