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Science fiction stories in six words.

Science fiction stories in six words. Some by well known scifi authors. Click "Previous Articles" for earlier stories. For me, A.S. Byatt's is most haunting. A sub-genre of "Six Word Stories".
posted by orthogonality on Mar 1, 2009 - 216 comments

We were given a flicker of time in which an entire other life might be carried out, birth to death, as an exercise in paying attention, ....

Some strange and strangely compelling short-short stories (by a Mefite): Sometimes the sick got well, and sometimes they didn't. It was commonplace for my grandmother to inherit an entire estate, based on the words "All Left to Persis" scrawled across the back of an envelope.
posted by orthogonality on Nov 10, 2008 - 22 comments