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Two Sentence Scary Stories
Royce:
What about one sentence?
When I withdrew my lips from his I studied my grandfathers face with confusion as he withdrew the knife from my heart.
Alia:
There's one I read somewhere and still remember. "Baby shoes for sale. Never used."
mrganondorf:
--- Quote from: Alia on October 20, 2015, 10:30:09 am ---There's one I read somewhere and still remember. "Baby shoes for sale. Never used."
--- End quote ---
those 2 sentences have so much punch. i think that this is from Hemingway and is the inspiration for the subreddit i posted upthread. someone in that reddit did
Five zombies, four bullets. Two zombies.
My dads met at Bible camp.
Sticks. Spears. Swords. Guns. Nukes. Sticks.
Camlost:
--- Quote ---There's one I read somewhere and still remember. "Baby shoes for sale. Never used."
--- End quote ---
I love this story actually. Legend has it that Hemingway and a group of fellow authors were out having a drink discussing their craft and all the jazz. During said discussion, Hemingway claims that he can write a complete, moving story in just six words. All those gathered are incredulous and jeer at him, so he proceeds to bet them each a drink. Hemingway then grabs a napkin and writes out "For sale: baby shoes. Never used." and passes it around the table. In turn, each of them read the napkin and concede how dramatically wrong they had been; and big burly drunk that Hemingway was, he collects on a table full of drinks ;D
I had a handful of stories I had been saving up for the day this thread got started and now I can't seem to find them on my computer. So, off the top of my head:
She pressed her lips to my forehead and crawled into bed next to me. They were just as cold as the last time I buried her.
Francis Buck:
Yeah that one's like the paragon of the whole style, and easily the best example I've personally seen. To be entirely honest I don't often find myself very impressed with most flash fiction I see, but every once in a while I see some good pieces. Then again I'm a pretentious, self-absorbed aspiring writer with unrealistically high "standards" for what I consider good (or more precisely, works that actually affect me in some meaningful way), so my opinions on these -- which are often just meant to be some simple fun -- is probably totally out of whack.
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