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PROMPTuesday #130: The Shorter the Better

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This PROMPT is lifted entirely from here, and thanks to her sharing it with me, I am unabashedly using it today.

 

As you might have read if you followed the above link, this PROMPT’s challenge is to tell a whole story in 25 words or less as inspired by the six-word “novel” attributed to Ernest Hemingway, which was brilliantly written as: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”

 

So to recap:

 

Please tell a story in 25 words or less.

 

I know you can do it.

 

Here’s mine:

 

Where are you going? he asked.

I shut the door and adjusted the exhaust hose.

Nowhere, I mouthed through the closed window.

 

I know, I know. I’m a maudlin sort.

 

As for you: Please post your response in the comments or write about it on your blog and leave me the link.

 

First time to PROMPTuesday? Read a bit about it here. Want to see what’s been written in the past? Catch up on the PROMPTuesdays archive here.

 

(P.S. If I had all my dreams come true, Mo would come back for this one. He’s a genius storyteller, that one.)

 

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November 15, 2010 · 18 Comments

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  1. melissa says

    November 15, 2010 at 7:15 pm

    this was an assignment in my creative writing class. it’s not so easy. i’m on it though.
    i’ll be back to link!!

    Reply
  2. stephanie (bad mom) says

    November 15, 2010 at 7:37 pm

    Whoa, yours is right on; I like maudlin.

    Will try and tell you if I’ve done it…

    Reply
  3. Cheri @ Blog This Mom! says

    November 15, 2010 at 7:49 pm

    I told him I had a bad feeling about the Mustang we’d just passed. Not a minute later, we heard SQUEAL, SKID, and then CRASH.

    Reply
  4. stephanie (bad mom) says

    November 15, 2010 at 9:34 pm

    Alright, I did one on my blog. And I would have copied & pasted it here but I’m lazy.

    But I did link to you :D

    Reply
  5. Shana says

    November 15, 2010 at 11:52 pm

    She meets the stranger’s gaze and in an instant a new life flashes before her eyes: love, home, babies, serenity, growing old, dying. Together. Always.

    Reply
  6. debbie says

    November 16, 2010 at 4:21 am

    Waking up late, she didn’t check the weather channel. Running to the bus, it started to rain…she remembered her umbrella too late. Freakin’ Monday.

    Reply
  7. green girl in wisconsin says

    November 16, 2010 at 8:23 am

    Ooh…good one.

    “She got up one morning and took a long look around at the house, her husband, the pictures of children now moved out. She grabbed her bag and left.”

    Reply
  8. JenniferfromLaJolla says

    November 16, 2010 at 1:55 pm

    The car stopped short. The passenger side door opened and a leg appeared briefly, before quickly retreating. “Wrong address”, she sighed. “Must get a GPS.”

    I am horrible at stuff like this. But thought I’d give it a go anyway.

    Reply
  9. Trish says

    November 16, 2010 at 8:21 pm

    Mine is buried in here somewhere:

    http://www.3kidsandabreakdown.com/2010/11/16/words/

    Reply
  10. All Adither says

    November 16, 2010 at 9:46 pm

    Oooh, fun! Thanks so much for the idea. Mine are here:

    http://alladither.typepad.com/all_adither/2010/11/twenty-five-word-fiction.html

    Reply
  11. Mama Mary says

    November 16, 2010 at 10:03 pm

    Oh, I really want to come up with something. Will think about it tonight. Love stuff like this but I don’t think my brain works right. (Was going to say right now but right is more accurate).

    Reply
  12. Kylene says

    November 16, 2010 at 10:16 pm

    I am not a writer but thought I’d have to at least try since I did suggest the prompt today… :)

    “He always stood for Peace yet earned a purple heart.

    War and Peace fought silently inside him for forty years.

    In the end, War won.”

    Reply
  13. slouchy says

    November 17, 2010 at 5:58 am

    Mine’s here.

    Reply
  14. jtcricket says

    November 17, 2010 at 6:21 am

    Your story makes me worry. But I know you’re great at fiction…right? So am I. Sort of. YOU be the judge:

    Reply
  15. jtcricket says

    November 17, 2010 at 6:22 am

    Find my attempt on my page…

    Reply
  16. jtcricket says

    November 17, 2010 at 6:24 am

    I am trying to comment and leave you a link to get to mine, but this isn’t working. aaarrrggghhh

    Reply
  17. foolery says

    November 17, 2010 at 3:33 pm

    Dude, I know it’s a day late, but I did it:

    http://foolery.typepad.com/foolery/2010/11/promptuesday-on-a-wednesday-because-im-the-boss-around-here.html

    It’s even more morbid than yours — I swear I didn’t know! I wrote mine before I read yours, really!

    Thanks — that was fun. :)

    Reply

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