X Word Stories

I love interesting writing exercises. Putting a limit on your word count is one exercise. In honor of NaNoWriMo, I present to you some Seven-to-One word stories. The most famous six word story is by Hemingway: "For Sale: Baby Shoes, never used."

Seven Word Stories:

Just as beautiful as ever, that headstone.

Granted, they never knew one another. So?

Untimely deaths. Untimely lives. Somewhere in between.

Her body was still. His knife wasn't.

Six Word Stories:

Firestarter caught. The damage, however, unrepairable.

Her sorrow was short. His, notsomuch.

Air itself was absent. Space abounded.

Her mournful convincing was an afterthought.

Stop talking and listen, he said.

Five Word Stories:

Around the bend to nowhere.

Harrowing and beautiful but scary.

Lives lost, her heartbreak complete.

Just nothing, just nothing but.

Four Word Stories

Another one is lost.

Figments, all of us.

Matchbooks are too plain.

Her face, a menagerie.

Three Word Stories

Just like that.

His pain, complete.

Jumping for joyousness.

Beautiful and plain.

Two Stories

If only.

We're lost.

One Word Stories

True.

Decorate 'round the base, all the graves of our lost loves
Cabbages, ginger root and a crucifix