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Ehdom
05-12-2008, 03:54 PM
Sorry if there is a similar thread, though i did some searching and didn't find one.

I love exercises that force you to be creative through your limitations. One of my favorite is the "Six Word Story."

Rules are pretty self explanatory. Create a story using only 6 words.

*****

No memory. New day. Here goes.

Lights gone now. Too quiet—Run.

Big mistake: Eternal life. Bad wish.

Went exploring. Got lost; found everything.

The last word ever written—"Soon."

Alone. Out of ink: history lost.

Finally; a sense of impending levitation.

Only a chance meeting. Changed everything.

Diamond ring for sale; never used.

Honey, was that door there before?

There, entirely sealed from the inside.

There they'd lay; a modern Pompeii.

Nothing could separate us. Except that.

"The thing is... we're not 'here'"

Wreybies
05-12-2008, 04:29 PM
>__>

Cogito
05-12-2008, 04:54 PM
Wished for world peace. Time froze.

Wreybies
05-12-2008, 05:11 PM
It appears I've missed the point.

Rumpole40k
05-12-2008, 05:12 PM
Bang! That is what liars deserve!

Cogito
05-12-2008, 05:18 PM
Go ahead. Shoot me, you coward!

ChimmyBear
05-12-2008, 05:21 PM
You knew everything, and missed living.

Gone Wishing
05-12-2008, 06:20 PM
I've had a lifetime, as always.

ChimmyBear
05-12-2008, 07:38 PM
~Gave it away, and gained nothing.

Cobra517
05-12-2008, 08:45 PM
My life's done--yours just begun.

Cobra517
05-12-2008, 08:47 PM
Test me. Go ahead, little punk.

Cobra517
05-12-2008, 08:48 PM
You're afraid. And you know it.

Cogito
05-12-2008, 10:41 PM
Don't worry. See, it's not loaded -

Cobra517
05-12-2008, 11:21 PM
But it was. And it killed.

witch wyzwurd
05-13-2008, 05:47 AM
Platypus. Chromosomes. Intervention. Extraterrestrials. Question evolution.

Cogito
05-13-2008, 07:46 AM
These are limits to human potential...

Cogito
05-13-2008, 07:00 PM
"I do," I said. Huge mistake.

Cobra517
05-13-2008, 07:07 PM
Live, die, and still live on.

Cobra517
05-13-2008, 07:10 PM
Face your own truths, not mine.

Cogito
05-13-2008, 07:19 PM
Proton meets antiproton. Eagerly they embrace.

FoxyMomma
05-13-2008, 07:20 PM
Monster growls. Boy screams. Dinner's eaten.

Cobra517
05-13-2008, 07:32 PM
Once upon a death, life happened.

Gone Wishing
05-13-2008, 07:34 PM
Blue smoke curled around my fingers.

Cogito
05-13-2008, 07:34 PM
Big Bang. Entropy grows. Heat death.

Gone Wishing
05-13-2008, 07:39 PM
Please fill in the blanks yourself.
:D

Cobra517
05-13-2008, 07:42 PM
Enemies with secret identities wait patiently.

Cogito
05-13-2008, 07:43 PM
I'm stuck in a temporal loop.

Cobra517
05-13-2008, 07:46 PM
This holding pattern, it will end.

Cogito
05-13-2008, 07:47 PM
Kill self, kill hostages...
Oh. Damn!

Gone Wishing
05-13-2008, 07:48 PM
Are you able to quantify that?

Gone Wishing
05-13-2008, 07:49 PM
I always post too late. Dammit!

ChimmyBear
05-13-2008, 07:51 PM
Act selfish, blast TV...sudden darkness!!

Gone Wishing
05-14-2008, 01:41 PM
Dissolution still seems like an evolution.

TenderHeart
05-14-2008, 01:54 PM
Descending the dark stairs of inevitability.

witch wyzwurd
05-14-2008, 02:18 PM
God. Experiment. Writing. Global lab log.

Cogito
05-14-2008, 02:26 PM
Death. Darkness. Desperate combat. Rebirth. Forgetting...

witch wyzwurd
05-14-2008, 02:29 PM
Breast. Penis. Vagina. Lust. Overpopulation. Murder.

Wreybies
05-14-2008, 02:46 PM
He redressed as she continued laughing.

ChimmyBear
05-14-2008, 05:53 PM
Setting my course, I sailed alone.

Crazy Ivan
05-14-2008, 09:07 PM
Ironically, the gun didn't cost much.

Torana
05-15-2008, 07:29 AM
World domination took over his mind.

Cogito
05-15-2008, 07:37 AM
Be still, my beating heart.

Granted.

Rumpole40k
05-15-2008, 01:04 PM
He let go and said farewell

witch wyzwurd
05-15-2008, 02:45 PM
Nonrandomness. Numbers. Alphabet. Lottery. Decryption. Winner.

Gone Wishing
05-15-2008, 06:20 PM
In one sparkling moment, she knew.

Gone Wishing
05-15-2008, 06:26 PM
And then there was one... Meh.

ChimmyBear
05-15-2008, 06:28 PM
My mind turns..ever empty, void.

witch wyzwurd
05-15-2008, 06:40 PM
Architecture. Skyscrapers. Steel. Indestructible. 9/11. Coincidence?

Terra Valentine
06-27-2008, 03:51 PM
I believe Bush is a terrorist.

Darthgumby
06-27-2008, 09:48 PM
Who are you? Where's your Horse?

Cogito
06-28-2008, 07:44 AM
Anyone else alive? Please respond.


Anyone?