6-Word Short Stories

6-word short stories

• For sale: baby shoes, never worn.
  -Ernest Hemingway
• Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time
  -Alan Moore
• Lie detector eyeglasses perfected: Civilization collapses.
  -Richard Powers
• The baby’s blood type? Human, mostly.
  -Orson Scott Card
• Longed for him. Got him. Shit.
  -Margaret Atwood
• Epitaph: Foolish humans, never escaped Earth.
  -Vernor Vinge
• It’s behind you! Hurry before it
  -Rockne S. O’Bannon
• Don’t marry her. Buy a house.
  -Stephen R. Donaldson
• I’m dead. I’ve missed you. Kiss … ?
  -Neil Gaiman
• Dorothy: “Fuck it, I’ll stay here.”
  -Steven Meretzky
• Automobile warranty expires. So does engine.
  -Stan Lee
• From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.
  -Gregory Maguire
• TIME MACHINE REACHES FUTURE!!! … nobody there …
  -Harry Harrison
• Bang postponed. Not Big enough. Reboot.
  -David Brin
• Gown removed carelessly. Head, less so.
  -Joss Whedon

(Originally found here.)