hey, let's start a meme?

Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words ("For sale: baby shoes, never worn.") and is said to have called it his best work. So we asked sci-fi, fantasy, and horror writers from the realms of books, TV, movies, and games to take a shot themselves.

Can you write a story in six words?

I like Alan Moore's one. Atwood's is particularly funny!!!

Wired is love.

Gates went into a zone that recalls those science fiction films where a space alien, confronted with a novel object, creates some sort of force tunnel between him and the object, allowing him to suck directly into his brain all possible information about it. Gates' fingers, racing at Nascar speed, played over the scroll wheel and pushed every button combination, while his eyes stared fixedly at the screen. I could almost hear the giant sucking sound. Finally, after he had absorbed every nuance of the device, he handed it back to me.

"It looks like a great product," he said.

Then he paused a second. Something didn't compute.

"It's only for Macintosh?" he asked.

Yes, it was. (Then.)

OH MY GOD. When someone writes with a punchline delivered so aptly - omggggg. I'm going to get a subscription to Wired. I swear.

P.S Btw, the William Shatner song I'm listening to? It rocks my socks off. Seriously. It's one of those songs you can listen to when you're feeling oh-so-emo and then go "AHAHAHAHA WTF".

Ah, the joys of William Shatner. If anyone wants the sole Shatner song I have (Ideal Woman), give me a ring. I'll send it your way - only because Shatner is every one's wildest Bostan Legal dream.

So anyway, let's start a meme then!

Write your own story in six (6) words!
(er, like and then comment on this post with your story? lul.)

Um, I'll post my own 6-word story later.

Six words, later. Spagetthi monster awaits.