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jazzfishBy now I'm sure everyone has seen the Awesomest Thing On The Internets: Wired Magazine's Very Short Stories. ("Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time" --Alan Moore)
It's easy to write okay-to-pretty-good ones:
They just have to be you. And very short.
It's easy to write okay-to-pretty-good ones:
This book didn't change your life.So, tell me a story, or two, or three. They don't have to be amazingly brilliant, secrets of Art in six words or anything; they just have to make me smile, or blink, or catch my breath.
"If that's not your left arm . . ."
Sobbing, he pressed the DELETE key.
They just have to be you. And very short.
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Date: 2006-10-26 02:06 am (UTC)Was that just information or a story?
I love David Brin's work (as usual). In this case some of which are reprisals of stories, his or others':
"Vacuum collision. Orbits diverge. Farewell, love." - This is just a single moment from Heart of the Comet, though a poignant one.
"Temporal recursion. I'm dad and mom?" - Of course this one is Heinlein's "All You Zombies".
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Date: 2006-10-26 02:36 am (UTC)Big rocks plus gravity equals freedom!
Princess is planet, kills meteor monster.
(I'll think of some better ones tomorrow.)
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Date: 2006-10-26 02:40 am (UTC)"To tired to walk. So I flew."
"Jane?" "No. Not any more."
"She Took my 's. Not vson, but self."
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Date: 2006-10-26 03:06 am (UTC)Also, I just noticed that thi title of a book I have is a good one:
We Were Soldiers Once... And Young
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Date: 2006-10-26 03:11 am (UTC)"I'll lose!" "Only if they're counted..."
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Date: 2006-10-26 03:11 am (UTC)First, the "my life in a nutshell" trilogy:
I failed to reach my potential.
It was because of crippling depression.
I'm worried it'll happen ad infinitum.
I loved her, but said nothing.
It was dumb. I knew. Damn.
Nothing I control seems to matter.
I look back, and mostly regret.
It seems funnier now than then.
Little copper-smelling droplets establish my control.
Should be doing something else now.
Will continue procrastinating with these later.
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Date: 2006-10-26 06:09 am (UTC)2) Falling sleet, mountain road, bent railing, white snow below, rocket fire above.
3) You thought I did this by myself?
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Date: 2006-10-26 12:43 pm (UTC)Gesticulating, he elbowed the Picasso.
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Date: 2006-10-26 03:51 pm (UTC)Also, this from Underworld:
"'Shake well before use,' she said."
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Date: 2006-10-26 03:53 pm (UTC)Bilbo: Found a ring!
Gandalf: Crap.
Babylon 5 in 6 words
"Who're you?"
"Whaddya want?"
"Go away."
The state of the Pacific
Overfishing. No more bluefins. Eat calamari.
Advice I received on installing Linux
No. Don't use computers. Abacus.
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Date: 2006-10-26 06:25 pm (UTC)All stories are true, except this one.
The monkeys were onto something.
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Date: 2006-10-26 08:33 pm (UTC)Red; gold; green. Colors of my life drift away in winter's chill.
Believe what you will. Have faith in nothing.
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Date: 2006-10-27 03:24 pm (UTC)I laughed knowingly.
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Date: 2006-10-27 03:14 pm (UTC)Robots cried together, "Now we rule!"
"Squirrels," I cried, "I'm no acorn!"
I unloaded Justice into his kneecaps.
"Goodbye," she said over poisoned dessert.
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Date: 2006-10-27 08:28 pm (UTC)Was the coffee finished, or forgotten?
Scribbling thoughts, she turned the page.
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