You Should Read These Short Stories

October 29th, 2006 · Posted in Linkage · 8 Comments

Slashdot links Wired’s Very Short Stories
Original article below. Read the comments.

Wired 14.11: Very Short Stories
Lots of stories. Six words long.

RodeoClown: not too bad at this.

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8 Comments to “You Should Read These Short Stories”

John Dekker Said:
October 30th, 2006 at 9:52 am

I like them. I think Hemingway’s is still the best, though. Of the new ones, Bruce Sterling’s would be my favourite.

RodeoClown Said:
October 30th, 2006 at 10:10 am

I liked the comments in the slashdot article. There were a lot of very witty responses there.

I liked the temporal loop one best I think I liked the temporal loop one best I think I…

sorry.

John Dekker Said:
October 30th, 2006 at 10:25 am

I guess I should have said:

They’re not as good as Hemingway’s.

RodeoClown Said:
October 30th, 2006 at 10:29 am

Should, or shouldn’t we count contractions?

John Dekker Said:
October 30th, 2006 at 10:34 am

You get good at this quickly.

RodeoClown Said:
October 30th, 2006 at 10:39 am

It’s a great exercise in conciseness

John Dekker Said:
November 7th, 2006 at 8:56 am

Dr. Platypus does this with Scripture.

John Dekker Said:
November 7th, 2006 at 8:58 am

Go here and help him out.