Lately, I've been thinking a lot about short stories. I follow VeryShortStory on Twitter and the other day, Chick In Stripes posted a link to this site: onesentence.org. I like that they're direct, to the point and leave something to be desired.
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Here's Hemingway's shortest story:
For sale: baby shoes, never worn.
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It's 6 words without a title and, supposedly, Hemingway claimed it to be his best work.
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Here's one a bit longer by Franz Kafka called "The Next Village":
My grandfather used to say: "Life is astoundingly short. To me, looking back over it, life seems so foreshortened that I scarcely understand, for instance, how a young man can decide to ride over to the next village without being afraid that—not to mention accidents—even the span of a normal happy life may fall far short of the time needed for such a journey."
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I like Hemingway's better.
11/16/09
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