Comments on: Disturbing, delightful and very, very short: Fiction in 25 words or fewer http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/disturbing-delightfu.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Thu, 23 May 2013 11:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: fxq http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/disturbing-delightfu.html#comment-922880 fxq Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-922880 Yeah, that one got me too... and inspired me to parody: Cower'd By fxq There had been rumors from DC for months. None of us believed it, until one night we decided to vote Tea Party too. Yeah, that one got me too… and inspired me to parody:

Cower’d By fxq

There had been rumors from DC for months. None of us believed it, until one night we decided to vote Tea Party too.

]]> By: moosehunter http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/disturbing-delightfu.html#comment-923140 moosehunter Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-923140 1: The Building is coming down! she screamed. I looked up to see the dust billowing against the blue sky. 2: Under a tree in battery park, A candle burns for the falling man. 1:

The Building is coming down! she screamed. I looked up to see the dust billowing against the blue sky.

2:

Under a tree in battery park, A candle burns for the falling man.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/disturbing-delightfu.html#comment-923656 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-923656 I believe there was a book done of 6-word ones, too. That Hemmingway one already mentioned being one of them. I believe there was a book done of 6-word ones, too. That Hemmingway one already mentioned being one of them.

]]> By: retchdog http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/disturbing-delightfu.html#comment-922645 retchdog Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-922645 "Image of something else disturbing and short: Some rights reserved by Alyssa L. Miller" Indeed, Creative Commons is disturbing and delightful to some and some others. “Image of something else disturbing and short: Some rights reserved by Alyssa L. Miller”

Indeed, Creative Commons is disturbing and delightful to some and some others.

]]> By: jere7my http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/disturbing-delightfu.html#comment-922654 jere7my Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-922654 <i>Disturbing, delightful and very, very short</i> That's what she said! Disturbing, delightful and very, very short

That’s what she said!

]]> By: hadlock http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/disturbing-delightfu.html#comment-922659 hadlock Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-922659 I can't wait to read the response to "Boing Boing Hacked" - I'm surprised you didn't have something ready when you got the site back up and running. I can’t wait to read the response to “Boing Boing Hacked” – I’m surprised you didn’t have something ready when you got the site back up and running.

]]> By: g0d5m15t4k3 http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/disturbing-delightfu.html#comment-922928 g0d5m15t4k3 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-922928 Yay! My Creative Writing class (hilariously at Community College) introduced me to MicroFiction. This was our "text book" http://www.amazon.com/Micro-Fiction-Anthology-Really-Stories/dp/0393314324 I really enjoyed it and I think it makes sense in our time of attention spans of less than 5 minutes. Yay! My Creative Writing class (hilariously at Community College) introduced me to MicroFiction. This was our “text book” http://www.amazon.com/Micro-Fiction-Anthology-Really-Stories/dp/0393314324

I really enjoyed it and I think it makes sense in our time of attention spans of less than 5 minutes.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/disturbing-delightfu.html#comment-922933 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-922933 25 words it way too much for a good story, try writing a story in 4 words: "hallo, world" "hallo, dave" 25 words it way too much for a good story, try writing a story in 4 words:

“hallo, world”
“hallo, dave”

]]> By: jeremydbrooks http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/disturbing-delightfu.html#comment-922948 jeremydbrooks Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-922948 Hey, I'm in that book! Hey, I’m in that book!

]]> By: benjymous http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/disturbing-delightfu.html#comment-922704 benjymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-922704 In a similar vein, Very Short Story on Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/VeryShortStory In a similar vein, Very Short Story on Twitter:

http://twitter.com/#!/VeryShortStory

]]> By: shutz http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/disturbing-delightfu.html#comment-922761 shutz Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-922761 I've had a blog for over a year where I post 50-word stories. I used to do so every day, for a long while, but couldn't keep it up due to my actual job completely squashing my inspiration. All my stories are exactly 50 words (according to WordPress's word counter, anyway.) Most stories are in an SF, Fantasy or Horror theme. Genre conventions are great when you have a word limit: you don't have to describe a time machine, an elf or a zombie, you just use the word and move along. <a href="http://50wordstories.ca">50wordstories.ca</a> I’ve had a blog for over a year where I post 50-word stories. I used to do so every day, for a long while, but couldn’t keep it up due to my actual job completely squashing my inspiration.

All my stories are exactly 50 words (according to WordPress’s word counter, anyway.)

Most stories are in an SF, Fantasy or Horror theme. Genre conventions are great when you have a word limit: you don’t have to describe a time machine, an elf or a zombie, you just use the word and move along.

50wordstories.ca

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/disturbing-delightfu.html#comment-922764 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-922764 Perhaps the most famous, and shortest fiction was by Hemmingway: "For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn." Perhaps the most famous, and shortest fiction was by Hemmingway:

“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.”

]]> By: shrocket http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/disturbing-delightfu.html#comment-922775 shrocket Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-922775 A) Thank you for your correct use of the word "fewer" in the headline; that word seems to be dying, which is quite sad. B) Anyone interested in hint fiction should check out <I>Novels in Three Lines</I> by Felix Feneon, a fin de siècle, French anarchist who not only wrote thousands of true short novels for a newspaper in 1906, but was also the first person to publish James Joyce in France. A) Thank you for your correct use of the word “fewer” in the headline; that word seems to be dying, which is quite sad.

B) Anyone interested in hint fiction should check out Novels in Three Lines by Felix Feneon, a fin de siècle, French anarchist who not only wrote thousands of true short novels for a newspaper in 1906, but was also the first person to publish James Joyce in France.

]]> By: LightningRose http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/disturbing-delightfu.html#comment-923031 LightningRose Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-923031 One of my favorite classics: "Hey everybody! Watch this!" One of my favorite classics:

“Hey everybody! Watch this!”

]]> By: Cynical http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/disturbing-delightfu.html#comment-923320 Cynical Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-923320 A Softer World is excellent, but a better analogue might be onesentence.org A Softer World is excellent, but a better analogue might be onesentence.org

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/disturbing-delightfu.html#comment-923068 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-923068 "Perfect reading for those winter evenings where you just want to take in a sentence, and then stare out the window for 20 minutes digesting it." It may be my American attention span, but I don't think I can imagine ever spending 20 minutes looking as a desolate winter landscape pondering a sentence - no matter how well written. “Perfect reading for those winter evenings where you just want to take in a sentence, and then stare out the window for 20 minutes digesting it.”

It may be my American attention span, but I don’t think I can imagine ever spending 20 minutes looking as a desolate winter landscape pondering a sentence – no matter how well written.

]]> By: aolson http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/disturbing-delightfu.html#comment-922813 aolson Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-922813 From the New Yorker article: “There had been rumors from the North for months. None of us believed it, until one night we started to kill our children too." Yipe! That's chilling. From the New Yorker article:

“There had been rumors from the North for months. None of us believed it, until one night we started to kill our children too.”

Yipe! That’s chilling.

]]> By: drtwist http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/disturbing-delightfu.html#comment-923088 drtwist Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-923088 a softer world does this, only in comic form a softer world does this, only in comic form

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/disturbing-delightfu.html#comment-922841 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-922841 A shot rang out. Ben stared at the gun in his hand - unfired. Then he noticed the crimson stain spreading across his shirt. Damn! A shot rang out. Ben stared at the gun in his hand – unfired. Then he noticed the crimson stain spreading across his shirt. Damn!

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/disturbing-delightfu.html#comment-923117 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-923117 Good thing the professor didn't grade on grammar: "Who's" vs. "Whose." Good thing the professor didn’t grade on grammar: “Who’s” vs. “Whose.”

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/10/27/disturbing-delightfu.html#comment-922875 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-922875 Old joke/story: A professor tasked his class to write the shortest story they could that included: 1) Religion 2) Sex 3) Mystery The winning entry was: "My God, I'm pregnant. I wonder who's it is?" Old joke/story:
A professor tasked his class to write the shortest story they could that included:
1) Religion
2) Sex
3) Mystery

The winning entry was:
“My God, I’m pregnant. I wonder who’s it is?”

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