Friday, September 25, 2015

On 'ultra-short' stories

I developed interest in writing or reading 'ultrashort stories' when our tenth grade teacher gave us an assignment to write a "three words story" after giving introduction of allegedly six words story of Ernest Hemingway  - "For sale: baby shoes, never worn"  (there is a controversy about his authorship).  I remember my story was: "Main Insaan hun" (I'm a Human). Somebody forwarded this ultrashort story to me, and I loved it.

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  1. Did you post the Sardarji short story too?
    He was asked to have four things romance love sex and mystry (something like that)
    I forget the rest

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  2. I believe it was

    "Tell a story in one line which has family, relationships, sex and mystery all together"
    "My wife is pregnant"
    "Ok Wife, you and newborn is a family, wife is a relationship and pregnancy is a sex - but where is the mystery"
    "Who is the father?"

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  3. You are right Mystic soul thank you
    have a good day and a good laugh

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  4. You are right Mystic soul thank you
    have a good day and a good laugh

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  5. Anonymous3:27 AM CDT

    my two words story "she lived"

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