What's the shortest story?

[Anonymous No.19311305]

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!bGBGaUpA8kS No.19311311]

Hemmingway’s Baby Shoes

[Anonymous No.19311321]

>>19311305
Whats the literary equivalent of an character actor?

[President of United States No.19311344]

>>19311305
For sale
Baby
Worn once
It’s awwwwwwwrite

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!bGBGaUpA8kS No.19311359]

>>19311321
Only in theatre
Like commedia dell’arte

[Anonymous No.19311424]

John is kill.
No.
Yes.

[Anonymous No.19311436]

muh dick

[Anonymous No.19311450]

>>19311311
I’ve sold/given away/thrown out at least 4 pairs of shoes that my kid never wore. People give them to you or you fuck up and buy the wrong size, or your two year old decides she hates the color, it happens all the time. What I’m saying is that story ain’t shit.

[Anonymous No.19311459]

Veni, vidi, vici. -Julius Caesar

[Anonymous No.19311464]

Pools closed.

[Anonymous No.19311467]

>>19311305
For sale, extra-small condoms, never used

[Anonymous No.19311489]

Tfwng

[Anonymous No.19311512]

Not for sale,
Baby Yeed.
I love this lil nigga like you wouldn't believe!

[Anonymous No.19311557]

Here's mine:
It began and ended.
>>19311424
Kek

[Anonymous No.19311569]

My Sexual History

[Anonymous No.19311579]

I came.

[Anonymous No.19311586]

Hello.
Goodbye.

[Anonymous No.19311608]

He shouldn't and he couldn't but he didit anyway. The basterd

[Anonymous No.19311625]

>>19311305
Love killed him

[Anonymous No.19311735]

Obviously how you define a story depends on how short it can be; for my money it should have some sort of development preceding or complementing the action at hand, rather than just a s+v+o sentence, i.e "His heart was black. Each step toward her illuminated that dormant part of his soul, at her touch it was reborn." which is 2 sentences and 21 words but has character development and arguably a climax.
>http://fiftywordstories.com/
If you want some examples of obscenely short stories.

[Anonymous No.19311875]

>>19311305
I would read Columbo's autobiography no matter how long it was, and no matter how many digressions about unnamed nieces and brother-in-laws there were before he gets to the stuff about how he realized by the way they guy shook his hand that he was the murderer

[Anonymous No.19311943]

>>19311305
Here's a short story for ya: I pooped my pants.

[Anonymous No.19311993]

>>19311359
How did you spell correctly "commedia dell'arte" and not "Hemingway"?
You copypasted the first, be honest

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!bGBGaUpA8kS No.19312026]

>>19311993
“Hemmingway” is a meme around here
>>/lit/?task=search&ghost=&search_text=Hemmingway

[Anonymous No.19312066]

>>19311305
When, long ago, the gods created earth,
In Jove's fair image, man was shap'd at birth...

[Anonymous No.19312097]

>>19312026
You didn't answer the second part
I'm going to sleep anyway

[Anonymous No.19312136]

>>19312066
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUcTsFe1PVs

Ud rēa, ud sura rēa
Ngi rēa, ngi bara rēa
Mu rēa mu sura rēa
Ud ul ningduēpaēaba
Ud ul ningduēmi zid duggaaba
Eš kalammaka ninda šuaba
Imšurinnakalammaka ningtab akaba
An kita badabaraaba
Ki anta badasuraaba
Mu namluulu baangaraaba

English Translation:

In those days, in those distant days
In those nights, in those ancient nights
In those years, in those distant years
In those ancient days all things had been created
In ancient time when all things were given their place
When bread was first tasted in the sacred shrines of the land
When the ovens had been lighted
When the heavens had been separated from the earth
When the earth had been separated from the heavens
When mankind had been established

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!bGBGaUpA8kS No.19312431]

>>19312097
I was familiar with commdia dell’arte since I saw Renoir’s The Golden Coach
Which up on YouTube amazingly enough
https://youtu.be/0B24NaC4fOY
(Also a Kenneth Anger short)

[Anonymous No.19312442]

The last man on earth sat alone in a room.
There was a knock at the door.

[Anonymous No.19312459]

>>19311305
He shidded. She fardded.

[Anonymous No.19312744]

>>19311305
Fleas by Ogden Nash
>Adam
>Had 'em

[Anonymous No.19312825]

>I heard [Muhammad Ali] talking to the Harvard senior class commencement. He gave this extraordinary speech. You know, he was dyslexic. He would look at a paper with me and he'd say "hey George, what's this word mean?" I'd say "appendicitis." "How do you get a word like appendicitis? It's so long." Here he was giving a lecture to these two thousand Harvard graduates. He had these little cards in front of him, and he gave a speech about how he hadn't had the opportunity, but they had, and they should use that learning that they had and do the best to change the world and make it a better place. It was moving, and it was funny at the same time, and there was a great roar of appreciation at the end of it. And then, someone shouted out, "give us a poem!" Now the shortest poem in the English language, according to Bartlett’s Quotations, is called "On the Antiquity of Microbes." And the poem is "Adam/Had ’em." It’s pretty short. But Muhammad Ali’s poem was, "Me. / We." Two words. I wrote Bartlett’s Quotations and I said, Look here, that’s shorter than "Adam/Had ’em." You wanna put it in? It stands for something more than the poem itself: me, we. What a fighter he was; and what a man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FyXHhCRsDU

[Anonymous No.19312836]

>>19312459
beautiful

[Anonymous No.19312870]

I'll keep writing until they kill me.

[Anonymous No.19312899]

>>19311305
am I ma.

[Anonymous No.19312903]

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[Anonymous No.19314089]

>>19311875
He has an autobiography. One guy on /lit/ mentioned it once and I asked how it was and he said as you'd expect and I was like based

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[Anonymous No.19314494]

>>19311305

Autoabidingify

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>>19311305
this nigga looks like Kramer

[Anonymous No.19314509]

>>19311450

Speaking truth to cliches.

[Anonymous No.19314534]

>>19312442
Of course he was alone you dumb fuck.

[Anonymous No.19314540]

>>19311305
k

[Anonymous No.19314578]

>>19311450
The story's good because of the possibilities, not because of one possibility. You obviously didn't get it and that's okay.

[Anonymous No.19314727]

>be me