Thread: Six Word Stories

Six word stories are exactly what they sound like. Tell a story in six words.

"WILLIAM FAULKNER FAMOUSLY said that a novelist is a failed short story writer, and a short story writer is a failed poet. Hemingway, with his creation of the six-word story, combined poetry and drama into a short form that has grown in popularity while remaining difficult to achieve."

Here's some examples:

For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn. —Ernest Hemingway

Longed for him. Got him. Shit. —Margaret Atwood

Well, I thought it was funny. —Stephen Colbert

Revenge is living well, without you. —Joyce Carol Oates

Six Word Stories

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But I thought it might be fun to do some here...

My God. Didn't see that coming.

This is, I think, the end.

Loved people. Customer service. Love lost.

Ugly duckling, got drunk and died.

Living fat, dying thin. Vanity wins.

Can't understand cricket. Worked out tennis.

Waiting. Glad I brought a book.

Can't understand cricket. Worked out tennis.

Haha! Awesome.

That Hemingway one about the baby shoes is wonderful.

Evil fell at the last fence.
Unexpectedly, the right man was killed.

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Free, fair elections for all soon.

Being Chinese, I read that as erections, and had visions of free rides for everybody on the giant Ferris wheel at the annual Upper Piddlecombe Dahlia and Kitten Fair.

You're a dork. And why'd you delete yours? I liked it.


Failed school. work, marriage. Mastered failure.

Two linked stories from yours truly...

Split condom. Pass me that hammer.
Parenthood, twenty years. Murder only fifteen.

Maybe he will change after this.

His precious stolen, he follows it.

I was actually trying to wrap my story into six words, and that popped into my head and made me laugh.
Began as: Raven haired witch stolen, he follows.

Olly's as vague as Turner's landscapes.

Epic gravity fail. End of story.