Hemmingway famously wrote a story in six words: "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." and considered it his best work. Wired magazine has asked a bunch of fantasy, sci-fi, and horror writers from all matter of media to write their own. The result was made into a series of gorgeous graphic art pieces, seen here. (Much thanks to Moxywoman over at DD for pointing me to this)
In the creative writing program, we spent a great deal of time focussing on how much could be said in so few words- Ezra Pound's In a Station at the Metro, being a famous example. When we were struggling with a piece, Priscilla encouraged us to try to say what we wanted to say in only a few words. It was a great exercise.
My first story in six words:
"What's a tree, dad?" asked Tommy
My favourite from the series in wired:
"From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings." by Gregory Maguire
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