NEWS: FiftyWordStories.com Changes Gears

News, ,

It’s been a lot of fun writing stories with exactly fifty words, but new frontiers of microfiction are calling. Upon seeing the success of a site like www.sixwordstories.net, I’ve realized that the important part of the term “microfiction” is the prefix “micro”. What people really want are short stories, the shorter the better!

So from today forward, this site will begin posting stories even shorter than fifty words.

The first of these stories will go up shortly. It will consisty of exactly ten words. Where will things go from there? I’m not sure yet, but I know we’re going to test the very limits of this genre known as “microfiction”.

Write By Numbers

Odd

One two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty twenty-one twenty-two twenty-three twenty-four twenty-five twenty-six twenty-seven twenty-eight twenty-nine thirty thirty-one thirty-two thirty-three thirty-four thirty-five thirty-six thirty-seven thirty-eight thirty-nine forty forty-one forty-two forty-three forty-four forty-five forty-six forty-seven forty-eight forty-nine fifty.

Impeccable Timing

Amusing, , ,

She crept from alcove to alcove, timing her movements against the motion of the cameras. Down the hallway, around the corner…

“Stop!” someone yelled. “Cut! Do it again! Honey, baby, we’re makin’ a movie here. The cameras have to see ya! Yeesh, whose idea was it to hire an ex-spy?”

SYLVAIN SCHMIDT: Party Trick

Amusing, Submissions, , , ,

“Here’s a neat trick,” he said.

He opened his mouth, real wide. He inserted his hand, then his arm, down his throat. His shoulder dislocated to go farther down. He stopped. Then his arm came back up, and he pulled himself inside out.

“What do you think?”

“You’re still ugly.”

This Guest Writer story was written by Sylvain Schmidt, who has written many more fifty-word stories in the Writer’s Block board on the Penny-Arcade.com forums.

GREG STEPNIEWSKI: The Daily Promise

Artistic, Submissions, , ,

He does it every day. He comes back home from wherever he was and promises himself that he’ll stop wasting time. He promises himself he’ll be productive and do something useful.

Then he sits down on the couch, watches TV, and eats snacks until he falls asleep. Just like me.

This Guest Writer story was written by Greg Stepniewski, a Computer Science student from Poland. As per the author’s wishes, this story is available under a Creative Commons Attribution license, and may be used for commercial purposes.