Archive for the 'Short Stories' Category
A Six Word Short Story
“Suddenly, life turned into a movie.”
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Memories
Last night, Star Movies showed Total Recall, one of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s better films (certainly not like the all-time smash holiday classic Jingle All The Way co-starring Sinbad). I remember watching it as a kid and not really understanding the story, only taking into memory certain scenes that have been indelibly etched into my brain such [...]
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Breathe With Me
Warren Ellis, of Transmetropolitan, Planetary, Authority, Stormwatch fame, has a semi-regular livejournal at . It’s not like his site, it’s more like a place for him to deal with fans and to do whatever he wants.
His latest gimmick with his livejournal is SUBMUNITIONS. Basically it’s him writing short stories in one hundred words. Not 99, [...]
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for easter.
A short story I read during my freshman year in college, it especially piqued my interest because of its nature as an ‘elseworlds’ story. Read it and tell me if things wouldn’t have been better had things gone this way.
Final Version by John Morresey
His days were full of work, but the life here was good. [...]
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Very short stories
A few months ago I talked about the nifty writing practice that was the 100-word short story particularly one of Warren Ellis’ go at it. Apparently there’s something that tops that - a six-word short story. And Wired has asked a few writers to write their own.
The first (or one of the first) person to [...]
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