Here is the challenge:
Try telling a story in no less and no more than 16 words. The story subject is the writer preference. The objective is to tell an engaging story that is more than just a statement. It should have a character, though a name is not required.
This is a tough challenge that allows your creative skills to really meet their pressure point but often can result in some amazing results.
Ready, set, write!
I could tell you many things about myself, but I’m limited to only using sixteen words.
Another 16 words story: There once was a mighty king who was loved and respected by all…. Then he died.
This one is actually a famous story… I think it’s part of a Middle-Eastern folk tale or something of that sort. A guy (let’s call him Joe because I don’t remember his real name, and it was probably terribly long and impossible to write correctly in English anyway) was invited to dinner. Now the other guests wanted to trick Joe, so they asked him to tell them an interesting story, as they figured he’d be stuck telling the story while they eat all of the food and then he’ll be left hungry. So Joe started: “There once was a mighty king who was loved and respected by all”. At that point the food came in and Joe stopped talking and started filling his plate. The other guests asked Joe, “What happened then?”, thinking he will now continue the story and will be unable to eat. “Then he died”, finished Joe, and ate twice as much food as anyone else.
Come to think of it, it’s not such a great story, is it?
gramma and mother fought endlessly made the boy a rebel n finally a serial “mother’s” killer
She said she would rather die alone than try to love again. She died eternally invulnerable.
Knock Knock!
Whosedere?
Einstein’s Train.
Einstein’s Train Who?
[Wham]
Knock Knock!
Whosdere?
Bus?
Bus Who?
Killer SerialBus
[scream]
I’ve seen her again. This time she breezed past me, taking my breath away . I’m dying…
O lady of my dreams and my waking hours, let me live or let me die.
“Hey , what’s the time?”
“Welcome!”
“Do I know you?”
” Two hours past your death. Yes”
“Amen”
“He loves me, loves me not…..”
“Girl, I love you! Do you love me?”
“Wonderful! No.”
Once upon a time there lived a handsome English man who wrote what you just read.
Once upon a time there lived a beautiful young lady who read what you just read.
I waited for you all these years. I always knew you’d never come by. Love, me.
Bride : “I don’t.”
Priest : “Do you need a moment to rethink?”
Bridegroom : “Plus she needs brain.”
She is here, there and everywhere. I’m lost in her and I can’t find her anywhere.
I wrote a sixteen word story and published it on toilet paper. Now I am rich :D
I loved. It hurt. I learnt. It healed. I forgot. I loved again.
So I died.
I came to conquer, but then I saw things and then I just stuck around lazily :)
sixteen words…...... well i am too perfect a creation of god to be described in sixteen words
sixteen words…...... well i am too perfect a creation of god to be described in sixteen words
sixteen words…...... well i am too perfect a creation of god to be described in sixteen words
I wake up each day hoping it will be different. No such luck. Life goes on.
Yay for depressing 16-word stories!
I can’t help quoting a story in 6 words by Hemingay:
“Baby shoes for sell. Never worn.”
Isn’t that poignant?
well, I also can’t help trying my hand again at the 16 one, though I’m not sure anyone is listening anymore. I do have the tendency to come in late, though I try… here goes:
The little boy fell on his way from school. No hug, no kiss just Fido’s lick.
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