6-word short stories

  • For sale: baby shoes, never worn.
    -Ernest Hemingway
  • Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time
    -Alan Moore
  • Lie detector eyeglasses perfected: Civilization collapses.
    -Richard Powers
  • The baby’s blood type? Human, mostly.
    -Orson Scott Card
  • Longed for him. Got him. Shit.
    -Margaret Atwood
  • Epitaph: Foolish humans, never escaped Earth.
    -Vernor Vinge
  • It’s behind you! Hurry before it
    -Rockne S. O’Bannon
  • Don’t marry her. Buy a house.
    -Stephen R. Donaldson
  • I’m dead. I’ve missed you. Kiss … ?
    -Neil Gaiman
  • Dorothy: “Fuck it, I’ll stay here.”
    -Steven Meretzky
  • Automobile warranty expires. So does engine.
    -Stan Lee
  • From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.
    -Gregory Maguire
  • TIME MACHINE REACHES FUTURE!!! … nobody there …
    -Harry Harrison
  • Bang postponed. Not Big enough. Reboot.
    -David Brin
  • Gown removed carelessly. Head, less so.
    -Joss Whedon

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Q&A w/ Tom Gauld
Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.
Neil Gaiman (M is for Magic)