three sentence stories...

[Bob]

the three word story thread keeps reminding me of something i saw in the guardian magazine a few months ago. Short story wrters were asked to write a story in only 3 sentences (or some such premise). the only one i can remember is this one...

 

For Sale.

Babies Shoes.

Never worn.

 

its ambiguous as fuck but very powerful, i reckon.

 

anyway, that was all.

[RedinSweden]

Very good. Reminds me of a joke where the bloke phones up the paper after his wife dies and asks to place an obituary. They ask him what he wasnts to say so he asks if it is charged by the word. They say it is so he says "Just put Wife dead". Then they tell him that it is a minimum of 5 words, so he says "Wife dead. Volvo for sale."

[Spy Bee]

the three word story thread keeps reminding me of something i saw in the guardian magazine a few months ago. Short story wrters were asked to write a story in only 3 sentences (or some such premise). the only one i can remember is this one...

 

For Sale.

Babies Shoes.

Never worn.

 

its ambiguous as fuck but very powerful, i reckon.

 

anyway, that was all.

 

Ernest Hemmingway wrote that. Hmm will Google and return.

[Spy Bee]

Here's the very thing you were talking about

 

http://books.guardian.co.uk/originalfiction/story/0,,2041548,00.html

 

I'm not impressed with the attempts there although Helen Fielding's is quite good. I like Jon Mcgregor but I have no idea what he's going on about.

[Spy Bee]

Telephone rang.

 

"Hello"...

 

"Clear?"

 

 

"Thank God!"

[Sut]

Here's the very thing you were talking about

 

http://books.guardian.co.uk/originalfiction/story/0,,2041548,00.html

 

I'm not impressed with the attempts there although Helen Fielding's is quite good. I like Jon Mcgregor but I have no idea what he's going on about.

 

I liked Elmore Leonard's and Jim Crace's.

[Spy Bee]

Aye in fairness, the more time you give them they all seem good. I think Hemmingway's is just so instant.