[PW] Re: looking for a short sci fi story

[Steve Bolhafner]

"The last man in the world . . . " is no longer the shortest science
fiction story. 

It's practically a novel compared to the batch of stories Wired Magazine
solicited from 33 writers and 5 designers, most of them familiar names
in the field of science fiction. The rules: the stories had to be
exactly six words long. 

My favorite is actually *not* a science fiction story, Margaret
Atwood's: "Longed for him. Got him. Shit."

But there are some good science fiction ones in there, like: 

"Vacuum collision. Orbits diverge. Farewell, love." (David Brin)

and  

"We kissed. She melted. Mop please!" (James Patrick Kelly)

Read them all at:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/sixwords.html 


J. Stephen Bolhafner
News Researcher
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Subject: [PW] Re: looking for a short sci fi story

        Well, it's not about a composer but it is (kinda) sci-fi.  And
it IS the shortest short story ever written--its by Hemingway:

                 The last man in the world was alone in a room.  There 
                  was a knock at the door.

Spooky, huh?


In a message dated 12/4/2006 11:03:43 PM Mountain Standard Time,
yslamj at hotmail.com writes:

> Hi everyone.
> I'v been looking for a short sci fi story for the longest time and i 
> cant find it - (a friend suggested to ask you.) I don't have alot of 
> information but what I do have is...
> It's about a music composer who was aloud to compose only his original

> music (and not to hear other music - he was put in some kind of 
> cottage in a
> forest) one day he
> snuk out and listened to anothers music, and when he composed, his 
> music was influenced from the music he heard

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