The Shortest And Most Accurate History Of The World You’ll Ever Read

[Przemyslaw (Murin) Murzyn]

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[Przemyslaw (Murin) Murzyn]

Good stories I like Margaret Atwood’s 6-word story the most :)

[Richard Roman]

Great stuff!

What about the shortest story ever written. Here are a few
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Look, time is precious–we don’t have time to crack open a book from this list, even if some of them are by Tolstoy and Proust. So, for the minute-crunchers out there who still need their literature fix, we’ve included a pint-sized list of tiny tales below; stories that are short enough to read, in their entirety, in the time it takes for you to conjure up a sneeze and expel it. Heck, even this intro paragraph looks like Clarissa next to these short shorts.

“Knock” by Fredric Brown:

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


Ernest Hemingway’s famous 6-word story:

For sale: baby shoes, never worn.

Margaret Atwood’s 6-word story:

Longed for him. Got him. Shit.

Alan Moore’s 6-word story:

Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time

“The Dinosaur” by Augusto Monterroso:

Cuando despertó, el dinosaurio todavía estaba allí.

(“When he awoke, the dinosaur was still there.”)

“Untitled Hardboiled Pulp No. 7″ by Duane Swierczynski:

After all these years, grandma still had a face that could take a punch.

“Aphorism #20″ by Franz Kafka:

Leopards break into the temple and drink all the sacrificial vessels dry; it keeps happening; in the end, it can be calculated in advance and is incorporated into the ritual.

“Spring Spleen” by Lydia Davis:

I am happy the leaves are growing large so quickly. Soon they will hide the neighbour and her screaming child.

“siseneG” by Arthur C. Clarke:

And God said: DELETE lines One to Aleph. LOAD. RUN. And the universe ceased to exist.

Then he pondered for a few aeons, sighed, and added: ERASE. It had never existed.