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Teresa Edgerton · 14th October 2007, 09:47 PM

I joined in on the 6 word story thread last night -- for the first time -- and such was my lack of discipline that I kept coming up with related sentences where none of them told a complete story. So even though I liked them, I couldn't use them.

But it suggested the idea for a new game/exercise/whatever: Stories or prose/poems of 2-6 lines of six words each. (And it's not a rule, but since this is an SFF forum, the fantastical, the science-fictional, or the grotesque get extra kudos.)

I'll begin:

A mermaid makes a slippery bedfellow,
Her heart is pickled in brine.
Her lover wakes to salty sheets,
And finds sea-slugs in his hair.

He makes toys for morbid minds,
We, the pawns, can not escape.

Does anyone else want to play?

14th October 2007, 09:47 PM	#1 (permalink)
Teresa Edgerton Goblin Princess Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 5,084 Blog Entries: 2	Son of 6 word story -- 6 (or less) lines of 6 words each I joined in on the 6 word story thread last night -- for the first time -- and such was my lack of discipline that I kept coming up with related sentences where none of them told a complete story. So even though I liked them, I couldn't use them. But it suggested the idea for a new game/exercise/whatever: Stories or prose/poems of 2-6 lines of six words each. (And it's not a rule, but since this is an SFF forum, the fantastical, the science-fictional, or the grotesque get extra kudos.) I'll begin: A mermaid makes a slippery bedfellow, Her heart is pickled in brine. Her lover wakes to salty sheets, And finds sea-slugs in his hair. He makes toys for morbid minds, We, the pawns, can not escape. Does anyone else want to play?