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frogmarch

(12,243 posts)
Thu May 23, 2024, 11:13 AM May 2024

One sentence stories [View all]

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?

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One sentence stories [View all] frogmarch May 2024 OP
Both good! Walleye May 2024 #1
Here is mine sdfernando May 2024 #2
Excellent! frogmarch May 2024 #4
Here's one I just came up with bif May 2024 #3
Yow! frogmarch May 2024 #5
It was a cold and stormy night. lpbk2713 May 2024 #6
We're waiting..... frogmarch May 2024 #8
Mine TexasBushwhacker May 2024 #7
Love that one! Mad_Dem_X May 2024 #9
There's a whole genre TexasBushwhacker May 2024 #11
this is what I got onethatcares May 2024 #10
This one is not mine... Conjuay May 2024 #12
I know you told me by making the choice to marry so young you would never Tikki May 2024 #13
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