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    from wired magazine:

    "Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words ("For sale: baby shoes, never worn.") and is said to have called it his best work. So we asked sci-fi, fantasy, and horror writers from the realms of books, TV, movies, and games to take a shot themselves."

    Failed SAT. Lost scholarship. Invented rocket.
    - William Shatner

    Computer, did we bring batteries? Computer?
    - Eileen Gunn

    Vacuum collision. Orbits diverge. Farewell, love.
    - David Brin

    Gown removed carelessly. Head, less so.
    - Joss Whedon

    Automobile warranty expires. So does engine.
    - Stan Lee

    Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time
    - Alan Moore

    Longed for him. Got him. Shit.
    - Margaret Atwood

    His penis snapped off; he’s pregnant!
    - Rudy Rucker

    From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.
    - Gregory Maguire

    Internet “wakes up?” Ridicu -
    no carrier.
    - Charles Stross

    With bloody hands, I say good-bye.
    - Frank Miller

    Wasted day. Wasted life. Dessert, please.
    - Steven Meretzky

    “Cellar?” “Gate to, uh ... hell, actually.”
    - Ronald D. Moore

    Epitaph: Foolish humans, never escaped Earth.
    - Vernor Vinge

    It cost too much, staying human.
    - Bruce Sterling

    We kissed. She melted. Mop please!
    - James Patrick Kelly

    It’s behind you! Hurry before it
    - Rockne S. O’Bannon

    I’m your future, child. Don’t cry.
    - Stephen Baxter

    1940: Young Hitler! Such a cantor!
    - Michael Moorcock

    Lie detector eyeglasses perfected: Civilization collapses.
    - Richard Powers

    I’m dead. I’ve missed you. Kiss ... ?
    - Neil Gaiman

    The baby’s blood type? Human, mostly.
    - Orson Scott Card

    Kirby had never eaten toes before.
    - Kevin Smith

    Rained, rained, rained, and never stopped.
    - Howard Waldrop

    To save humankind he died again.
    - Ben Bova

    We went solar; sun went nova.
    - Ken MacLeod

    Husband, transgenic mistress; wife: “You cow!”
    - Paul Di Filippo

    “I couldn’t believe she’d shoot me.”
    - Howard Chaykin

    Don’t marry her. Buy a house.
    - Stephen R. Donaldson

    Broken heart, 45, WLTM disabled man.
    - Mark Millar

    TIME MACHINE REACHES FUTURE!!! ... nobody there ...
    - Harry Harrison

    Tick tock tick tock tick tick.
    - Neal Stephenson

    Easy. Just touch the match to
    - Ursula K. Le Guin

    New genes demand expression -- third eye.
    - Greg Bear

    K.I.A. Baghdad, Aged 18 - Closed Casket
    - Richard K. Morgan

    WORLD'S END. Sic transit gloria Monday.
    - Gregory Benford

    Epitaph: He shouldn't have fed it.
    - Brian Herbert

    Batman Sues Batsignal: Demands Trademark Royalties.
    - Cory Doctorow

    Heaven falls. Details at eleven.
    - Robert Jordan

    Bush told the truth. Hell froze.
    - William Gibson

    whorl. Help! I'm caught in a time
    - Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel

    Nevertheless, he tried a third time.
    - James P. Blaylock

    God to Earth: “Cry more, noobs!”
    - Marc Laidlaw

    Help! Trapped in a text adventure!
    - Marc Laidlaw

    Thought I was right. I wasn't.
    - Graeme Gibson

    Lost, then found. Too bad.
    - Graeme Gibson

    Three to Iraq. One came back.
    - Graeme Gibson

    Rapture postponed. Ark demanded! Which one?
    - David Brin

    Dinosaurs return. Want their oil back.
    - David Brin

    Bang postponed. Not Big enough. Reboot.
    - David Brin

    Temporal recursion. I'm dad and mom?
    - David Brin

    Time Avenger's mistaken! It wasn't me...
    - David Brin

    Democracy postponed. Whence franchise? Ask Diebold...
    - David Brin

    Cyborg seeks egg donor, object ___.
    - David Brin

    Deadline postponed. Five words enough...?
    - David Brin

    Metrosexuals notwithstanding, quiche still lacks something.
    - David Brin

    Brevity’s virtue? Wired saves adspace. Subscribe!
    - David Brin

    Death postponed. Metastasized cells got organized.
    - David Brin

    Microsoft gave us Word. Fiat lux?
    - David Brin

    Mind of its own. Damn lawnmower.
    - David Brin

    Singularity postponed. Datum missing. Query Godoogle?
    - David Brin

    Please, this is everything, I swear.
    - Orson Scott Card

    I saw, darling, but do lie.
    - Orson Scott Card

    Osama’s time machine: President Gore concerned.
    - Charles Stross

    Sum of all fears: AND patented.
    - Charles Stross

    Ships fire; princess weeps, between stars.
    - Charles Stross

    Mozilla devastates Redmond, Google’s nuke implicated.
    - Charles Stross

    Will this do (lazy writer asked)?
    - Ken MacLeod

    Cryonics: Disney thawed. Mickey gnawed. Omigawd.
    - Eileen Gunn

    WIRED stimulates the planet: Utopia blossoms!
    - Paul Di Filippo

    Clones demand rights: second Emancipation Proclamation.
    - Paul Di Filippo

    MUD avatars rebel: virtual Independence Day.
    - Paul Di Filippo

    We crossed the border; they killed us.
    - Howard Waldrop

    H-bombs dropped; we all died.
    - Howard Waldrop

    Your house is mine: soft revolution.
    - Howard Waldrop

    Warskiing; log; prop in face.
    - Howard Waldrop

    The Axis in WWII: haiku! Gesundheit.
    - Howard Waldrop

    Salinger story: three koans in fountain.
    - Howard Waldrop

    Finally, he had no more words.
    - Gregory Maguire

    There were only six words left.
    - Gregory Maguire

    In the beginning was the word.
    - Gregory Maguire

    Commas, see, add, like, nada, okay?
    - Gregory Maguire

    Weeping, Bush misheard Cheney’s deathbed advice.
    - Gregory Maguire

    Corpse parts missing. Doctor buys yacht.
    - Margaret Atwood

    Starlet sex scandal. Giant squid involved.
    - Margaret Atwood

    He read his obituary with confusion.
    - Steven Meretzky

    Time traveler's thought: "What's the password?"
    - Steven Meretzky

    I win lottery. Sun goes nova.
    - Steven Meretzky

    Steve ignores editor's word limit and
    - Steven Meretzky

    Leia: "Baby's yours." Luke: "Bad news..."
    - Steven Meretzky

    Parallel universe. Bush, destitute, joins army.
    - Steven Meretzky

    Dorothy: "Fuck it, I'll stay here."
    - Steven Meretzky

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    • Some of these are great, actually.Continuity
    • Brilliant.MrT
    • Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time
      -lol! Alan Moore is the best.      sarahfailin
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