Very Short Stories (WIRED magazine)

[highlyeccentric]

in the great tradition of the micro-story (i think this is the shortest i've seen yet): http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/sixwords.html

some selected amy favourites:


Gown removed carelessly. Head, less so.
- Joss Whedon

Failed SAT. Lost scholarship. Invented rocket.
- William Shatner

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

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

Wasted day. Wasted life. Dessert, please.
- Steven Meretzky

Epitaph: Foolish humans, never escaped Earth.
- Vernor Vinge

It cost too much, staying human.
- Bruce Sterling

We kissed. She melted. Mop please!
- James Patrick Kelly

It's behind you! Hurry before it
- Rockne S. O'Bannon

I'm dead. I've missed you. Kiss … ?
- Neil Gaiman

The baby's blood type? Human, mostly.
- Orson Scott Card

Rained, rained, rained, and never stopped.
- Howard Waldrop

To save humankind he died again.
- Ben Bova

We went solar; sun went nova.
- Ken MacLeod

Don't marry her. Buy a house.
- Stephen R. Donaldson

TIME MACHINE REACHES FUTURE!!! … nobody there …
- Harry Harrison

Tick tock tick tock tick tick.
- Neal Stephenson

Heaven falls. Details at eleven.
- Robert Jordan

Bush told the truth. Hell froze.
- William Gibson

whorl. Help! I'm caught in a time
- Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel

God to Earth: "Cry more, noobs!"
- Marc Laidlaw

Thought I was right. I wasn't.
- Graeme Gibson

Lost, then found. Too bad.
- Graeme Gibson

Three to Iraq. One came back.
- Graeme Gibson

Bang postponed. Not Big enough. Reboot.
- David Brin

Temporal recursion. I'm dad and mom?
- David Brin

Please, this is everything, I swear.
- Orson Scott Card

I saw, darling, but do lie.
- Orson Scott Card

Osama's time machine: President Gore concerned.
- Charles Stross

Sum of all fears: AND patented.
- Charles Stross

Cryonics: Disney thawed. Mickey gnawed. Omigawd.
- Eileen Gunn

Commas, see, add, like, nada, okay?
- Gregory Maguire