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

[jazzfish]

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.

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[pooka798.livejournal.com]

Car go boom.

Red; gold; green. Colors of my life drift away in winter's chill.

Believe what you will. Have faith in nothing.

[sir-alf.livejournal.com]

Car go boom.

I laughed knowingly.