Comments on: short and sweet

short and sweet

Urban Hermit — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 20:43:20 -0800

True stories, told in one sentence [via Projects]. More single sentence stories (and such) at Scrine [truthiness not guaranteed]. They have a kind of lame contest on right now, but check out some of the older entries: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

By: munyeca

munyeca — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 21:08:13 -0800

What great sentences! A little reminiscent of Canadian Literary Magazine NFG's Great 69er contest, all very short stories (69 words, varying numbers of sentences).

By: MrLint

MrLint — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 21:13:37 -0800

As a juxtaposition; nanofiction. Some of these stories show up as character flavor text on the card game Chrononauts. From the same guys that make another game I like to play.. Fluxx. No I don't work for them just enjoy passing the time.

By: fleetmouse

fleetmouse — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 22:33:24 -0800

They seem to be bloodless jokes that do not make me laugh. It is like Bunny and Cat and Girl - cartoons that do not make me laugh. At least it does not take long, leaving us more time for work and youtube.

By: sour cream

sour cream — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 02:07:24 -0800

Some of them have a hakuesque quality to them in that they try to capture a mood or a season in a few words; but there are also some that are cheating ... they try to get around the one-sentence restriction by splicing sentences with semicolons or so.

By: kimota

kimota — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 06:37:52 -0800

This one time, at band camp...

By: laze

laze — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 10:58:46 -0800

They have a kind of lame contest on right now Contest? There's no contest... the site's just open for user submissions. [BTW -- thanks for the link. The site's just getting started.]

By: laze

laze — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 11:00:39 -0800

Woops - my bad. Just noticed the contest comment referred to Scrine. *will eventually learn to read beyond one sentence*

By: Urban Hermit

Urban Hermit — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 11:02:44 -0800

I meant that Scrine has a contest on - users are encouraged to submit entries in 'fortune cookie' style. Sorry for the confusion.

By: Urban Hermit

Urban Hermit — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 11:03:26 -0800

*will eventually learn to use preview*

By: darkstar

darkstar — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 00:10:25 -0800

The inauspicious morning - having to fish the truck keys out of a long-drop outhouse before breakfast - proved to be telling when we were caught in a brushfire before lunch and, then, before dinner, found ourselves between an enraged mother with a pick-axe and a half-blind demented woman with a rusty fishknife, each intent on doing bodily harm to the other; indeed, we learned to mistrust mealtimes as a simple survival skill. /true story