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By 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:
This book didn't change your life.

"If that's not your left arm . . ."

Sobbing, he pressed the DELETE key.
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.

They just have to be you. And very short.

Date: 2006-10-26 02:40 am (UTC)
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Some brilliant stuff -- especially Moore's.

"To tired to walk. So I flew."

"Jane?" "No. Not any more."

"She Took my 's. Not vson, but self."

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"Jazz Fish, a saxophone playing wanderer, finds himself in Mamboland at a critical phase in his life." --Howie Green, on his book Jazz Fish Zen

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