Writing Exercise (ten words or less)

[vampiredust]

Breakfast, he ate a woman. Threw up her hair tonight.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

I worked myself to tears. My body didn't keep up.

 

[elsol]

Filing for divorce wasn't hard. The nurse steadied my hand.

 

[elsol]

Soundproofing was a bitch! But I so love their screams.

 

[elsol]

Two nine millimeters. A shotgun. Late for work.

 

[elsol]

I wanted to live, more than I loved my children.

 

[elsol]

The Dear John missed him by a day.

 

[elsol]

Father Michael is the reason I hate God.

 

[elsol]

Cancer was ugly. Spain was beautiful.

 

[Grushenka]

Cancer was ugly. Spain was beautiful.

Love this one, and only six words.

Me again, just for fun :

Nappy headed hos! I'm sorry. Fuck! Where's my resume?

 

[elsol]

I shaved my head.
I didn't cry.
She died anyway.

 

[butchclarence]

My two cents' worth

Project, Sex with Strangers: Incomplete. All subjects satisfied, terminated prematurely.

 

[Vermilion]

Young girl went walking and never came home.

 

[Salvor-Hardon]

She stood naked, blocking the television, winked, then ran.

 

[scriptordelecto]

The motion of the spinning cars was like a ballet.

 

[Vermilion]

He winked for the cameras and a heartthrob was born...

 

[Grushenka]

Just a reminder (third or fourth I think ). It's a story in ten words or less that is the exercise. Not a line of poetry, not a phrase or title or opening sentence. See first post for fine samples like these (only six words each):

"For sale: baby shoes, never worn." - Ernest Hemingway

Dream punctured. Build pyre. Curses... Adolf. - Beryl Bainbridge

 

[Emperor_Nero]

He came, he saw, he conquered ... he came again.

 

[Grushenka]

He came, he saw, he conquered ... he came again.

Clever, and it fits the bill in just nine words.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Bump!

 

[fcdc]

Two good ones:

My husband visited yesterday. I killed him years ago, right?
Twenty miles to shore takes hallucinatory days after enemy shootdown.

*****

Two terrible ones:

SF ISO short Corsican SM, LTR. BYO prenup. Josephine B.
Monkey or man? Commander-in-Chimp decided: Tonight. Animal Planet.

*****

OK, the last one isn't a story, but I think you'll forgive me.

 

[SimpleGifts]

Just a public service note...Wired magazine ran a feature based on this, but challenged some well-known authors to write a story using only SIX words.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/sixwords.html

My favorite is Margaret Atwood's entry:

Longed for him. Got him. Shit.

SG

 

[SimpleGifts]

So here's my try:

I followed the sun, and on returning, found myself forgotten.

SG

 

[SimpleGifts]

And another:

"If only..." he lamented, but to no avail.

SG

 

[SimpleGifts]

One last entry for tonite:

He found a spark, but then despair extinguished his heart.

SG