Microfiction in a flash: 6-word stories
This is based on Hemingway’s greatest: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn” My own flash fiction attempts follow: This is a six-word story. . . . Damn! He’d never lie to his mistress. “Running away beats suicide,” he lied. He and his clone always bickered. “Sucks to be you,” Job said. Thousand tears streamed like…
Does your girlfriend know you’re making eye contact?
Coworker: I made my girlfriend a CD for Christmas about all the memories of the year. Pixel: *chortle* Coworker: Hey, at least I have someone. Do you have a girl to come home to every night? Pixel: No, but at least I don’t define myself by whether or not I’m in a relationship.
#10: Eternal recurrence, eternal recurrence, eternal recurrence
Pixel looked up, a little jaded.73¤!¿ looked back, eager. “Are you him?” Pixel inquired. “You mean me?” 73¤!¿ countered. “You realize that this is going to be an eternal recurrence?” Pixel said to his future self. “A what?” “An eternal recurrence. Eternal recurrence. Eternal recurrence. It’s a concept developed by the Egyptians that Nietzsche uses……
#1: No punchlines in the delivery room
Baby Pixel came out of the womb and looked around, afraid and cold. He saw blurry shapes and heard fuzzy sounds, but did not know what or where they were. He wanted to go back. More than anything he wanted to go back. When he was in the womb, he hadn’t thought of it. He…
Necro Autobiographical Microfiction
Microfiction is a ludicrously short story, usually about 250 words. Microficticious works have all the same elements as regular works, but are forced to show them quicker. If novels are meant to be read over a month, novellas over a week, and short stories in one sitting, then microfiction is meant to be read in…
Her smile was a million roses, her laugh the heavens themselves, but her tears, they… tore me a new one
Simp: You’re terrible to study with! Pixel: I know, why do you think I never try it! You can’t leave him alone! You know how he gets when he’s by himself! He just eggs himself on!
Ironically, he didn't see it coming.