Story Within a Sentence (or two).

AgentofOrange

I want you guys to try to tell a story using between 1 to 3 sentences.
I do this all the time while at work as an exercise of me not losing my mind.

show me what you got, why don't cha

"Don't even say that", Courtney retorts with a carefully measured tone of indignation appropriate for the level of discourse within the group, "I once got SO much sand up my vagina that my doctor said I could have gone BLIND. I'm just saying, don't even..." A chance text message to her cell phone gives Courtney the opportunity to allow the chime to act as her punctuation.

Abracadaniel

For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.

ASimPerson

http://adamcadre.ac/lyttle.html

Brolo

Smart Hero wrote: »

For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.

For rent. One condom. Never used.

Antimatter

Kanye West put on his mask and said to himself while flying, "I guess one man can have all that power."

Ladai

Smart Hero wrote: »

For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.

That's exactly what I thought of when I saw this. That's Hemingway, right? I think the story was his friends were poking fun at his writing style and challenged him to come up with the shortest story he could. That was his answer.

Antimatter

Ladai wrote: »

Smart Hero wrote: »

For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.

That's exactly what I thought of when I saw this. That's Hemingway, right? I think the story was his friends were poking fun at his writing style and challenged him to come up with the shortest story he could. That was his answer.

it was from a play about Hemingway but no one's confirmed that it actually happened

Ladai

Ah.

Larlar

Smart Hero wrote: »

For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.

"You're under arrest for plagiarism," they told him. He was sure he'd heard that somewhere before.

Fuzzy Cumulonimbus Cloud

I ate the curry with my hands and did not look them in their eyes.

Abracadaniel

What if your hands

Were spiders

Ubik

I join Justice Scalia’s dissenting opinion. I write separately to note that the law before the Court today is uncommonly silly.

Ladai

After serving his sentence, Rodney limped out of the county jail's property claim office with his pair of pink flamingo lawn ornaments.

FlatEric

The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.

The Lovely Bastard

and that's when i decided to box the moon.

Bucketman

And then there was a mighty bowl movement, and the universe was born.

Weaver

FlatEric wrote: »

The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.

If we're just gonna copy stuff, "The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."

Ubik

Chief Justice Fred Vinson died early one Saturday morning of a heart attack. Justice Felix Frankfurter released a one-sentence statement: "Chief Justice Vinson's death comes as a great shock to me."

FlatEric

Weaver wrote: »

FlatEric wrote: »

The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.

If we're just gonna copy stuff, "The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."

I figured people had seen it before, and it's one of my favorites so I wanted to share it again

The Lovely Bastard

fuck now I wanna write mine

and have someone draw it little nemo style

CorporateRed

"Well," said the doctor "that seems to be the last of them." He paused, and turned to the nurse. "Betsy, how do you suppose all those hermit crabs got into his ass?"

Weaver

I'd known him in his youth, when he would climb anything he could get at. Now, reunited, as we near the edge of the canyon, I wonder if his new-found fear of heights is more a fear of opportunity.

Crimson King

there's a great writing exercise where you have to tell a story into exactly one hundred words

no more, no less

alternatingAberration

I followed my reflection, and stood where it led me. I was waking up.

TankHammer

Rolo wrote: »

Smart Hero wrote: »

For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.

For rent. One condom. Never used.

"I got a great deal on a vintage World-War-Two French rifle," spouted my obnoxious uncle, "Never fired! Only dropped once!" He clapped me on the back and I died a little inside.

Huntera

Never before had the man seen anything such a vile, and putrid shade of green.

"Maybe I should go to the doctor after all..." The man pondered as he flushed.

Avraham

The last dog on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a bark at the door.

Bucketman

Dejectedly, she realized that this is what he mother meant when she said to wear clean underwear.

Ubik

"Shake ya ass, but watch ya'self" President Reagan said, turning to face the Prime Minister. They both danced on the table as jelly beans rained down, "Shake ya ass, show me what you're workin with."

Durkhanus

Of all the things he had witnessed in under a minute, Steve was still puzzled as to why everyone else on the street were now standing on their heads, and all quite dead.

Ubik

Henry Kissinger stared at the Mao Zedong, lost in his eyes like deep pools of dark water. He could only ask the question he had held in his mind for so long, "Is there any more room for me in those jeans?"

sarukun

Smart Hero wrote: »

For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.

Cheater.

I Win Swordfights

I placed the small man upon my head and danced gayly

Quoth

Jim put down his stylus and stared at the monster he had drawn. The screen shuddered and the monster blinked, opening its vast, toothy mouth. Drool ran onto his desk; he didn't have time to scream.

/pface doodle

I Win Swordfights

The jade elephant laughed uproariously at the sleeping lion. "Always place your fruit before your haystack."

The Lovely Bastard

a grim creeped across janet's face as brian knobbs called her miss jackson

I Win Swordfights

Suddenly his codpiece caught fire

sarukun

Well, that's it then, the paper confirms it. My father is dead, and I'll never see that money as long as I live.

Antimatter

He turned left and his eyes widened.

sarukun

These are mostly sentences and not stories.

See, like that sentence wasn't a story.

Raijin Quickfoot

"This can't be" he thought, his hands trembling as he scraped off a layer of paint. Beneath the original portrait was a grotesque head with lizard-like qualities. Abraham Lincoln had been a velociraptor!