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A story in six words

  • 20-03-2014 12:35am
    #1
    gerrycorrigan
    Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭


    Yearned. Did it. Not worth it.


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  • #2
    hotshots85
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 337 ✭✭hotshots85


    gerrycorrigan wrote: »
    Yearned. Did it. Not worth it.

    Woman can't find love....found it.


  • #3
    DazMarz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,493 ✭✭✭DazMarz


    Son: iPhone
    Daughter: iPad
    Dad: iPaid


  • #4
    Anne Other
    Closed Accounts Posts: 172 ✭✭Anne Other


    I came.
    I conquered.
    I left.


  • #5
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,353 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    I don't know what to type.


  • #6
    Paddy Samurai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,014 ✭✭✭Paddy Samurai


    Swords rise, death feasts, peace returns.

    :eek:


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  • #7
    helloiamoxygen
    Registered Users Posts: 5 ✭helloiamoxygen


    Tea bag, hot water, milk... yum!


  • #8
    Nerdlingr
    Registered Users Posts: 4,385 ✭✭✭Nerdlingr


    Have to quote (apparently) Ernest Hemingway for this :

    For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.


  • #9
    gerrycorrigan
    Registered Users Posts: 79 ✭✭gerrycorrigan


    Groomed. Turned around. What a view!


  • #10
    Dibble
    Registered Users Posts: 246 ✭✭Dibble


    The start.
    The middle.
    The end.


  • #11
    Labarbapostiza
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 963 ✭✭✭Labarbapostiza


    The mourners drifted away.

    He smiled; the perfect crime.


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  • #12
    Timmyctc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,825 ✭✭✭Timmyctc


    Labarbapostiza wrote: »
    The mourners drifted away.

    He smiled; the perfect crime.

    "That's not six words" He said


  • #13
    Labarbapostiza
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 963 ✭✭✭Labarbapostiza


    Timmyctc wrote: »
    "That's not six words" He said

    It's a duology.

    There's two novels there.....Notice how they're on different lines.


  • #14
    Timmyctc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,825 ✭✭✭Timmyctc


    Labarbapostiza wrote: »
    It's a duology.

    There's two novels there.....Notice how they're on different lines.

    Neither "Novel" is six words long.


  • #15
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,080 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    What is to stop an encyclopaedia?


  • #16
    Labarbapostiza
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 963 ✭✭✭Labarbapostiza


    Timmyctc wrote: »
    Neither "Novel" is six words long.


    Well, I prefer to be economic in my prose and not get too flowery. Why tell a story in six words, when you can get away with less. I think I got away with it.


  • #17
    Timmyctc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,825 ✭✭✭Timmyctc


    Labarbapostiza wrote: »
    Well, I prefer to be economic in my prose and not get too flowery. Why tell a story in six words, when you can get away with less. I think I got away with it.

    Because the thread is called "A Story in Six words" not "Two separate stories in less than six words each"


  • #18
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,080 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    Three sixes shown. Six six six.


  • #19
    Labarbapostiza
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 963 ✭✭✭Labarbapostiza


    Timmyctc wrote: »
    Because the thread is called "A Story in Six words" not "Two separate stories in less than six words each"

    I can't help it, if I'm prolific and talented enough to churn out two books, while everyone else is still struggling with one. This suddenly pulling rules out of thin air, wreaks of jealously to me, though there is a very slim chance that perchance I might be mistaken.


  • #20
    sea_monkey
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 755 ✭✭✭sea_monkey


    Thread derailed. Users squabble. Boobie boobs.


  • #21
    Timmyctc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,825 ✭✭✭Timmyctc


    Labarbapostiza wrote: »
    I can't help it, if I'm prolific and talented enough to churn out two books, while everyone else is still struggling with one. This suddenly pulling rules out of thin air, wreaks of jealously to me, though there is a very slim chance that perchance I might be mistaken.

    Perchance one is mistaken. Perchance one spends so much time on writing fantastic literary works, as you so claim yourself, (we'll ignore the old adage "self praise is no praise") that one has neglected their reading ability and has in fact, completely misread and misrepresented the title and sole rule of this thread, and ultimately, made themselves out to be a overwhelming D-bag.

    Then again, there is a very slim chance that perchance I too, may be mistaken.


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  • #22
    Un Croissant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,052 ✭✭✭Un Croissant


    The Bride hides her budding belly.


  • #23
    Labarbapostiza
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 963 ✭✭✭Labarbapostiza


    The abortionist laughed
    wiping his hands.


    See, I can do single standalone novels too.


  • #24
    Nerdlingr
    Registered Users Posts: 4,385 ✭✭✭Nerdlingr


    Dolphin can't swim. Lost something . Fin.


  • #25
    4umbrellas
    Registered Users Posts: 65 ✭✭4umbrellas


    He cried. She laughed. Neither stayed.


  • #26
    Labarbapostiza
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 963 ✭✭✭Labarbapostiza


    4umbrellas wrote: »
    He cried. She laughed. Neither stayed.

    She laughed.
    He caressed her neck.
    Her laughter ended.


    I call this story; Forever.


  • #27
    Pocaide
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 279 ✭✭Pocaide


    Came, saw, conquered. Got bored, left.


  • #28
    sea_monkey
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 755 ✭✭✭sea_monkey


    Labarbapostiza wrote: »
    She laughed.
    He caressed her neck.
    Her laughter ended.


    I call this story; Forever.

    can you please just stop posting in the thread if you cant grasp the concept


  • #29
    Lisha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,695 ✭✭✭Lisha


    Family gathering induced Migraine. Never again.


  • #30
    vertico
    Registered Users Posts: 133 ✭✭vertico


    For focks sake, not again, please.


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  • #31
    Labarbapostiza
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 963 ✭✭✭Labarbapostiza


    sea_monkey wrote: »
    can you please just stop posting in the thread if you cant grasp the concept

    Jesus, no need to be so punctilious. No one would have noticed, had you not pointed it out. And by the way, that's not how you spell cant....It's spelled can't.


  • #32
    emeraldstar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,383 ✭✭✭emeraldstar


    Labarbapostiza wrote: »
    No one would have noticed, had you not pointed it out.
    Heh? You think people can't count to six?


  • #33
    Labarbapostiza
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 963 ✭✭✭Labarbapostiza


    emeraldstar wrote: »
    Heh? You think people can't count to six?

    Well, if I can't count to six.....I would imagine I'm not alone in having that particular misfaculty.

    And when I'm reading a story, I generally do not count the words. If I were a less talented writer I might. It must be awful for some people; hacking away at it with all their little hearts - then hitting the word count button, and it not coming to much. Not coming to much at all.


  • #34
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,353 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Labarbapostiza wrote: »
    If I were a less talented writer I might.

    You could be less talented?!? Six words is a simple brief. Start your own thread. Call it 'dump stuff here' or something. Best of luck with it. Bye.


  • #35
    Un Croissant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,052 ✭✭✭Un Croissant


    Can't we all just get along.


  • #36
    Swiper the fox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,747 ✭✭✭Swiper the fox


    Log on. Literature forum. Argument. Daycent!


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  • #37
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Once upon a time stuff happened.


  • #38
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,353 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    Once upon a time stuff happened.

    Based on a true story perhaps.


  • #39
    SamAK
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,094 ✭✭✭SamAK


    "Sh1t happens, and people do stuff"


  • #40
    Rory Gallagher
    Registered Users Posts: 292 ✭✭Rory Gallagher


    Tommy had a name 'tis Tommy


  • #41
    Sir Chops
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 133 ✭✭Sir Chops


    Lock cock stock rock. Pock MOCK


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  • #42
    Rory Gallagher
    Registered Users Posts: 292 ✭✭Rory Gallagher


    Ooh ahh Up the Ra.Yah.


  • #43
    BopNiblets
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,579 ✭✭✭BopNiblets


    This time, he killed her right.


  • #44
    wilser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,112 ✭✭✭wilser


    Holidaying in Florida,
    On the dole

    :)


  • #45
    Labarbapostiza
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 963 ✭✭✭Labarbapostiza


    wilser wrote: »


    :)

    :(


  • #46
    Labarbapostiza
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 963 ✭✭✭Labarbapostiza


    Love is warm
    So is blood


  • #47
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,080 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    She arrived, he came. They cuddled.


  • #48
    Frynge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,667 ✭✭✭Frynge


    An irish marriage, him, her, drink.


  • #49
    czechlin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,341 ✭✭✭czechlin


    Deafening silence hung above the city.


  • #50
    DazMarz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,493 ✭✭✭DazMarz


    Withdrew savings. Last chance. Horse Lost.


  • #51
    Kilgore__Trout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 454 ✭✭Kilgore__Trout


    Vacancy. Sheriff. Spacesuit and pistol provided.


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