Very short stories

[IWroteThis]

That's your philosophy add-on, not mine.

No, it's an extrapolation of your statement. I simply took your logic further than you like, because it shows the fault in your logic.

What's that got to do with the elegance of 750 words?

It's a matter of setting expectations based on a false premise, then failing to deliver, because the expectations were set on a false premise.

For example, you expect a story with 2000 words to be a 2000 word story. However, when the writer pads the word count like a small-chested woman pads her bra, the reader is disappointed to find that the actual story, like the actual breasts, is much smaller than advertised.

A 750-word story written in 750 words is going to be better than a 750-word story written in 2,000 words, much less 20,000.

 

[SimonDoom]

Prince Galthorp ventured forth from his castle to begin a Very Short Story to kill a dragon, but unfortunately it was so short that it finished before he

 

[IWroteThis]

Prince Galthorp ventured forth from his castle to begin a Very Short Story to kill a dragon, but unfortunately it was so short that it finished before he

That reminds me of one I wrote to annoy somebody…

Some random person was complaining about the odds of things happening to the main character (in somebody else's story), and they couldn't understand that stories are told from after the fact about people who had things happen to them that were worth writing about. So, I wrote a quick little three line story about a young soldier who wouldn't normally get a story told about him. In the first sentence, he excitedly got his equipment. The second saw him trip and the third saw him die with his own bayonet in his chest.

I'm not sure if they finally understood, or if I simply scared them away. Don't really care either!