Economical Fiction: Stories In Only Six Words

Recently, the UK-based site, Guardian Unlimited, which calls itself the “best daily newspaper on the world wide web”, held an interesting challenge based on Ernest Hemmingway’s assertion that his best work was only six words long: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” They invited contemporary authors to pony up with some extra-short fiction as well. Fun reading, and you never have to skip to the last page to find out what happens.

Perhaps the common man might have been invited to contribute some extra-short fiction as well, and by “common man”, I mean “you”, and by “contribute”, I mean “post here”.

Here’s my contribution with which to start you off:

Alex issued challenge; kazoo as prize.”

We’ll take submissions until midnight EST.

To cut a long story short [books.guardian.co.uk]