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.

5 comments:

bsc said...

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

mystic-soul said...

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?"

bsc said...

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

bsc said...

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

Anonymous said...

my two words story "she lived"