Six Word Stories
The Six Word Story Flickr group collects images with a small tale in the title. I really like it, especially when otherwise uninteresting shots snap into new meaning. Some of my favourites here, here and here. It's based around Hemingway's famous short story, which he called his best ever prose:
For sale: baby shoes, never worn.
Wired recently asked various authors for their own versions, and there are some terrific responses (via):
Gown Removed Carelessly. Head, less so.
- Joss WhedonMachine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time
- Alan MooreLonged for him. Got him. Shit.
- Margaret AtwoodI’m dead. I’ve missed you. Kiss … ?
- Neil GaimanTick tock tick tock tick tick.
- Neal Stephenson
There are lots more. My personal favourite is:
Osama’s time machine: President Gore concerned.
- Charles Stross
They're great fun to think up 
A few of my attempts:
Hand transplant. Worried. Mind of its
Lisa. Year ago. Talking to sky.
The bunny made me do it.
Motorway. Surprise sneeze. Mess on dashboard.
It's not illegal if we're siamese.
Vaccination study. Media hysteria. Empyrrhic victory.
Comments are open if you fancy a go...
Hello!
Hey, thanks for coming! I'm Andrew, and this is where my headthinks come to breed. They often meander around humanism and photography, but they're flighty and you can't trust them, so anything is possible.
Do feel free to email me - I get lonely:
Your hair looks swish, by the way - have you done something new?
Recent Comments
- vicky: going up this weekend having done all the welsh peaks except 4 snowdon, cant wait
on Climbing Snowdon. - vicky: what, how can u live in the 21 c and say that, probably a sexist thing
on Climbing Snowdon. - vicky: da iawn laura, cant believe what im hearing, all this fuss, anyway love the site, and i agree, normal people who swear and curse clomb mountains cos we live in the...
on Climbing Snowdon. - Andrew: Did a few quick test shots to check the light levels, then balanced the camera on the arm of a bench, set it for a 20s exposure and hoped for the best
on ISS. - lynsey: Wow, how did you take that photograph?
on ISS.
November 18th, 2006 - 19:40
Upcoming American Holocoust. America sleeping blissfully.
Osama Your Momma? I hope not.
November 19th, 2006 - 20:19
Are you merciful God? hoping, ACLU
Claiming to be wise at Harvard
Liberal professors hogging dumbed-down university scene
Dumbed-down America! Can you say “scud-in-a-bucket?”
Facilitating 9/11: Freeh, Pickard, Bodine. Shame!
Peer-pressure slaves: tattoos, body piercings.