Those crazy kids at Metafilter pointed me to a nifty Wired story in which dozens of sci-fi and horror writers tried to emulate Hemingway by turning out a story in just six words. Which sounded like exactly the kind of creative challenge to help Team PopWatch survive another ho-hum Wednesday. I’ll kick things off; you do your best work in the comments section below.
Shovel. Buried. Chirping!? The crickets know!
Empty. Quaking. Frailty. Eat something Nicole!
Tried this. Got frustrated. Moved on.
Ska/Punk gone hip-hop. Hollaback Gwen! Failing to capture the Rapture.
Mom? Dad? Remember me? Adoption? Payback…
Wait a few more popped in mind…
1) Skeleton. Booze. Digital Video Whore. Paris.
2) Michael. Jackson. World. Wide. Web. Foley.
3) Cavity. Air. Empty. Cranium. Bush. Jr.
4) Pod. Testube. Government experiement. Aliens! Suri.
5) Spawn. Stronger. Popozao. Divorce. PLEASE! Britney.
Stuart Little. Mickey Mouse. Cheese. Showdown.
PS – i know testube is two words…but i needed to make it fit, dang it! lol.
Princess dissects frog, happy ending tarnished.
Reborn, a womb with a view.
Explored weird noise in basement. Uuurgggh.
“Welcome” terrible insult in *their* language.
Lives Frodo!! But my SUCKS SYNTAX!!
Give me just one second. THERE!
Save the Cheerleader, Save the world. Wait…that one’s in use already!
Here goes nothing:
Lost in Space…Found by THEM.
Ice. Cold. World Frozen. Life Ends.
Some of these other comments do not tell a story…