One sentence stories

[frogmarch]

Got any to share that you wrote or saw somewhere?

Here's one I saw online a bit ago:

"It's very hard to live in a studio apartment in San Jose with a man who's learning to play the violin," she told the police when she handed them the empty revolver.

-Richard Brautigan, 'The Scarlatti Tilt', from Revenge of the Lawn, 1974, Picador.

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Here's one I wrote a while back:

Dear whoever dug up my mother's coffin to put someone else in it, and then recarved her stone, what did you do with her and the letters my sad father wrote her and tied with gold ribbons?

[Walleye]

1. Both good!

[sdfernando]

2. Here is mine

I was riding the train the other day with my mother, who was hateful and abusive to me all my life, and I was contemplating how I could throw her off when I suddenly had déjà vu.

[frogmarch]

4. Excellent!

I think you have a knack.

[bif]

3. Here's one I just came up with

He thought he was such a hotshot on the basketball court until I knocked him down while blocking his shot and he fell to the floor and cracked his noggin open and died right there before a crowd of several thousand stunned fans.

[frogmarch]

5. Yow!

What a goody!

[lpbk2713]

6. It was a cold and stormy night.

... I might need to work on it some more.

[frogmarch]

8. We're waiting.....

[TexasBushwhacker]

7. Mine

I could have sworn the head's eyes were closed when I put it in the freezer.

[Mad_Dem_X]

9. Love that one!

Sounds like something Stephen King would write.

[TexasBushwhacker]

11. There's a whole genre

Of one and two sentence horror stories. They even made a series on Netflix. Some were better than others.

[onethatcares]

10. this is what I got

"wait til your father gets home she said as I stumbled in the door"

it's part of "Blind Dog Dreams" that I'm working on

[Conjuay]

12. This one is not mine...

"I always thought that Interpol was just some made up thing for James Bond movies, until they broke down our door at six AM one Sunday morning."

[Tikki]

13. I know you told me by making the choice to marry so young you would never

welcome me back to your house if I messed up my life but after 57 years of marriage to my wonderful husband and you being gone and all we recently visited the family who now owns that house.

The Tikkis