6 Word Stories

The last ten 6 word stories

  • Sin cursed; Death sure; Christ cured. - Jon Hayes, 2009-02-22
  • Letter posted, lost or everlasting journey - Dan Gladwin, 2009-01-21
  • Health regulations: No babies in mangers - Sarah Richards, 2008-12-22
  • Shepherds have close encounter: stable UFO - Sarah Richards, 2008-12-22
  • Wenceslaus thinks: "Too Cold": stays home. - Sarah Richards, 2008-12-22
  • Interesting famous people should like me - Tom, 2008-12-15
  • These cocktail sausages help my coding - Chris S, 2008-12-11
  • Secondhand uniform, only bullet hole mended - Sarah Richards, 2008-11-09
  • First Secondhand Second Uniform, Third only Forth bullet Fifth hole Sixth mended - Your name Sarah Richards, 2008-11-09
  • Cat only lover, since he left - coldclimate, 2008-09-06
  • Jackson Stupidly I hit submit twice! - Tommy, 2008-08-11
  • Bilbo Baggins finds a magic ring - J R R Tolkien, 2008-08-10
  • Remorseless she turned, slowly breaking him. - Tommy Jackson, 2008-08-07
  • Unknowning, he kissed his lover goodbye. - Tommy Jackson, 2008-08-07
  • Unknowning, he kissed his lover goodbye. - Tommy Jackson, 2008-08-07
  • Discovered singledom through facebook status... pain - coldclimate, 2008-08-07
  • Dog walking - he kills a bird. - Jake Stride, 2008-08-05
  • "Tea?" "Check." "Scones?" "Check." Lets lunch! - coldclimate, 2008-08-05
  • Door closed, house alight; I leave. - coldclimate, 2008-08-05

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What?

Years ago I became fascinated by Ernest Hemingway's 6 word story (written as part of a bet) "For sale: Baby Shoes. Never worn."

It's a whole story in 6 words, and truly amazing (in my opinion). I played around with writing them for a while, as well as their slightly longer cousin the 50 word mini-saga.

There are many many more by numerous famous people, here in this wired article

Why?

Because I can. I was amazed at "Baby Shoes" and I hope somebody writes something as amazing on here

Who?

I run coldclimate.co.uk as a personal blog. Have a read if you want to find out more. I lurk around the UK geeky conferences too.

Fugly?

yes, I know this site isn't very pretty or AJAXY or anything else it probably should be. It is a lashup to get an idea off the ground, and might become more at a later date.

Plans

I have no plans to change this page just yet, though eventually I'll add some proper error checking, and pagination (so you can see all of the stories, not just the last ten) etc etc. Currently, it's just a toy.

Layout CSS borrowed from here, with many thanks