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12. Hunting. Share your favorite hunting stories, or tell how you feel about hunting. Alternate: The Big Loss. Describe a moment in which your team lost and what happened. Deadline: FRIDAY.

Deadline extended: Future of Vermont Challenge. Get published, win cash. Deadline: FRIDAY.

Create a six-word story

The challenge: Create a story using only six words. This is commonly known as the Hemingway Challenge; Ernest Hemingway said he could write a complete short story in six words. His story: "For sale: Baby shoes. Never used." ...
As you can tell, we've had GREAT response. Keep them coming. We soon will be selecting the best for publication. AND we have already selected six of them for a very special on stage project that will happen in December. More later. Add your Six-word Stories as comments below.

Online Challenge:

This looks like fun!
Here's mine:
Leaving means never coming back. Ever.
Peace,
Mango
P.S. are you coming to the YWP conference?

Hey mango!

Hey mango!

freeskiertc's picture

six words for perfection

she lied, it was not mine

HAHAHAHA

Lolz.

Usagi's picture

Mine:

I'm sorry. With love, your daughter.

Smoke spirals upwards. Gently I collapse.

This isn't how I imagined love.

Abandoned car. Inside: an abandoned life.

One push: it'd be so easy.

I'm sorry these are so morbid. Hey, that was six words too. I'm thinking in six-word phrases now.

ParisianTwist's picture

this seems familar....

I'm watching him lose himself forever.

I want this to mean something.

Catch me when I fall, Please?

God is ugly. I hate myself.
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"Characters are only the pawns of Reality, and reality must begin somewhere." ~Self Quoted

loverofbeauty's picture

6 words

Her tears dried: she wanted revenge.

" Save him," she said, blacking out.

'It's not a lie' he yelled

The cliff steps away, he jumped.
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Life isn't about waiting for the storm to stop, its about learning how to walk in the rain

writingdog's picture

I didn't want to die

I didn't want to die soon.
Why can't you ever love me?
They hugged, careless what others thought.
I never pictured it like this.
I can't change what I am.
I'm just like you, except different.
We all are unique in ways.
I don't hate you, just evolution.
Don't take the banana, I want it!
I order you to hug me.
I want a 7th Grade locker.
Back off, I called it first.
Rebirth is just another big adventure.
Don't cry if you don't make it.
Stop making me laugh; I'm dying......
Forggive and forget; ok? No way!
Don't think she's better then you.
Secrets should be locked in boxes.
I think we should all hug.
Let's celebrate for me. Party on!
She cluelessly, felt the world spinning.
Nothing else mattered to her then.
This story will end right now.

greenie's picture

"Traditional torture,

"Traditional torture, responsibility-riot-act implied?"

"Would you please explain the radish?"

"And yes, I'm making this up."

I don't drink, hence the sherry.

Your son is having his rebellion.

Wanted: left-footed, orange high heel.

Directions for self powered, radioactive duck.

Usagi's picture

Very nice

I prefer these to my morbidity. My favorite: a tie between..y'know, two was turning into three was turning into seven. Let's just say I like them all. The last two made me laugh, although the first ones had something to do with that too.

YaMoGeekRoZ's picture

six word attempt

she sang with strength, but softly.

"she's broken," cried the child.

warily, she spproached the casting list

All he remembered was the light.

she saw death approaching in the yellow of his eyes.

Fairy Godmothers, Together forever.

"I could kill someone...it's possible."

George washington wasn't the first predsident.

History, rewritten in the blink of an eye.

"sold him self to the devil."

she knelt, in grief.

Miss Sarah Elizabeth's picture

:)

These are good, but not all of them are six words, some are more then and some are less then.

more

Take my heart. It's broken anyway.

Before the light hit the Earth.

She loved all she had lost.

'Understanding' isn't a word in America.

Peace,
Mango
P.S. are you coming to the YWP conference?

pineapple_babbit's picture

Happy 6 word stories

"will you please marry me again?"

He finally looked into her eyes.

Mona Lisa Was the girl's mirror.

Wanted: A smile just for me.

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My attempt

Knock. A soldier. " I'm so sorry..."

I tripped and fell. In love.

I had a vision of black.

The edge. I fall...and fly.

georgia_peachy's picture

b-e-a-utiful

i love the first one. it seems that most of the best ones have a few sentences. the last one is also very interesting.

six words

pay you if you eat that.

pineapple_babbit's picture

wow.

This one is amazing. I can so relate to this *and probibly anyone else* and it could have a really funny story behind it. I love it!
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squeejay's picture

how about...

"I can't ever write six worded stories!"

hehehe
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when life gives you lemons... order a root beer

Usagi's picture

Sorry

Already been done:

"Can't think of a six-word essay.
-- Aidan Zebertavage, Champlain Valley Union High School"

squeejay's picture

didnt see that...

"I knew it from the beginning..."
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when life gives you lemons... order a root beer

Usagi's picture

Ha!

See, you can!

I like it. It'd work well as a prompt, too.

squeejay's picture

hey!

you fool! thats not six words!
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when life gives you lemons... order a root beer

Usagi's picture

What!

If I'm responding to someone else's, it doesn't need to be six words!

Otherwise the convos on this thread would be seriously stunted.

...Maybe that's what gg was going for...

squeejay's picture

another one...

rather than run, I will fight...

all of these are turning into great story prompts!
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when life gives you lemons... order a root beer

yet again...

The last light is out. Forever.

Once upon a time. The End.

Peace,
Mango
P.S. are you coming to the YWP conference?

NeonKiwi's picture

Here

Why? Because the sky is unattainable.

Professor_Zoom's picture

6 words

Why did she have to die?

imagine's picture

6 words challenge

1. In dreams she could remember sight.

2. It's beautiful when bodies melt together.

3. Sharp metal, so cool against wrists.

4. Hate isn't a beautiful last memory.

5. People finally stopped reading the newspapers.

6. I pretend poetry isn't my mask.

7. Drugs help me forget their fighting.

8. Why are your smiles so faint?

9. Time forces us to glimpse differences.

10. I'm older; I recognize your imperfections.

6 words

she said sadly "please don't go."

6 word

He smiled at her "I'm gone."
Tears were poring down her face
Crying in the rain "He's gone."
And forever more there was peace.

6 words

His last dying words were "remember."
Her ghost restlessly haunts the castle
Her murder was not in vain
He died with hope, and love
his heart, beating on the floor
The chest! It was gone forever!
The sacred jewel lay in pieces
"You broke my heart" he screamed!

Egyptiangirli's picture

Only Six words

1 2 3 4 5 6
Happy.Sad.Good.Bad.My life.

1 2 3 4 5 6
Every single candle has a kindeler.

1 2 3 4 5 6
"I love you." "Realy? Me too!"

1 2 3 4 5 6
I miss you.I love you.

"For every flame that dies out a new spark is kindeled"--Phillis Goldblatt

nice!

nice job!! hmmmm i have never read this quote before.

6 words

she screamed and stabbed his heart
Her ghost never left the house....
to be continued

sk8ergrl's picture

6 words!

OK, I'm not quite sure how this will sound but here goes!!

1. Annoying brothers. Mean. Cruel. Equals tragedy.
2. Christmas!! Presents! Toys! Ohhs and Ahhs!
3. Lovely music filters through her mind.
4. Must this world be so sad?
5. I am all out of ideas.

This is soooooo fun!!

NeonKiwi's picture

6

Drop it and unroll your sleeves.

NeonKiwi's picture

6

That was stupid. So, so stupid.

mixedmusic333's picture

6 Words

1. Running man jumps, splats of horror.

2. i before e, except after...

3. Loud gun bangs and policecar parks.

4. Wanted: six word essay. For efficiency.

5. Rhyming makes more sense than reason.

6. Don't fall yet, we're still waiting.

7. Order a root bear. Add salt.

Just had some fun with those. ;)

pineapple_babbit's picture

6 word stories

1. My cookies are just so addicting... *lol*
2. She arived with presents in arms.
3. The storm raged harder than predicted.
4. A rainbow appeared. All is good.
5. Their Christmas never came that year.
6. The aliens transported the cow away.
7. The dog jumped into his arms.
8. She thinks my tractor is... awsome. *What am I listening to??? lol*
9. It was lost, and then found...
10. Talknig is my way of life. ^_^
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mixedmusic333's picture

Responses in 6 words

I LOVE cookies so so much.

It's a devastating addiction, you see.

RobertJordanFan's picture

6 word story

The truck disappeared over the horizon.

I thought, "This is not good."

Those are my stories.

georgia_peachy's picture

On the 6th day of Christmas......

Time’s up. Love me or else.
His love was only skin deep.
Call me. I need a soul.
Wrapping paper couldn't hide his pain.
The calendar date told me everything.
What fools we are to believe.

Hoping life is peachy,
Georgia

grandmothers left her alone,

grandmothers left her alone, no recipe.

"had to relearn, with this hand"

she was the last to leave.

hollowed, she died, like her mountain.

Egyptiangirli's picture

More only 6 words!!

1___2___3_____4______5___6___
Love is lasts forever and ever.

"For every flame that dies out a new spark is kindeled"--Phyllis Goldblatt

more...

This is so much fun!
1. The paint peeled from the wall.
2. Time is not important when dead.
3. She left. Took the dog too.
4. Give me back the apple pie.
5. Put my apple pie away now.
6. Randomness starts a mystery of invention.

Peace,
Mango
P.S. are you coming to the YWP conference?

mixedmusic333's picture

ah Mango! I love number 3

ah Mango! I love number 3

Professor_Zoom's picture

another one.

They cried alone, unwanted and friendless.

Usagi's picture

One

They left her only a burn.

Interpret it as you will.

greenie's picture

Sadly, the sidewalk looked

Sadly, the sidewalk looked the same.

Peace to all, minus the frogs.

Where did that rabbit come from?

It doesn't usually float like that.

Why are you wearing my earrings?

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