Time for a change of pace. While I’ve been away from home nearly 4 months now, I haven’t posted or written much outside of my journal. I woke up one night to a good idea that would help kick start my creativity. Inspired by Wired’s article on 6 word stories, I set out to write 25 stories on Twitter.
My rules were pretty simple, 25 stories (the amount taken from Facebook’s recent viral outbreak) written on my twitter account. Each would be numbered, which cut my space to 137 characters. They would all be posted within a single day too, which gave me a deadline. I completed my task with time to spare, much to the confusion of several people on Facebook, which receives my Twitter feed.
Here is the collection of stories, with links to the original Twitter posts:
#1) Empty desert for miles in all directions. The car rolled to a stop, it’s driver murdered. Who done it?
#2) Success! The world’s heroes & governments fell easily to Baron Plague’s weapons. Now where had those clone templates gone?
#3) From mountain to rubble to sand to sediment. Then mined then sculpted. The nose of the Sphinx. Destroyed and forgotten, back to sand.
#4) Lifetime limits be damned. Technology cannot be contained. I’ll save my mother by giving birth to her.
#5) “Rid us of the goblins!” said the king. Zor the Magician now wished he’d picked bow tie & top hat over beard & staff for his act.
#6) Jack worried about his future a lot these days. Jobs were scarce. Former child actors have it hard. Especially because Jack was a dog.
#7) “Doctor, there’s trouble.” “What is it?” “The machines can time travel.” “That’s concering.” “And Shakespeare was a computer.”
#8) He told them all his name was Reggie to avoid the beatings. His real name was Adolf. He’d show them. He would save the world.
#9) They called Mark Jenkins the “Banker with a Heart of Gold”. But he’d really been smuggling precious metals in his intestines.
#10) T’lor, from a family of necromancers, wished to be a dancer. He had quite the following, mostly from performing in graveyards.
#11) I’ve built the world’s most advanced AI using data from human interaction on the internet. Now I need to hire PR because it’s a jerk!
#12) Now that my sister is marrying the Prince. I wonder how he’d feel if he knew his brother in law leads the resistance.
#13) On my deathbed I must come up with an answer. How do I tell the city about the mole men beneath their streets? -Plumber General Roth
#14) Jane had a new problem. The faulty door lock systems released the tracking wolves. And they hadn’t been fed since she’d hurt her leg.
#15) Of the 3 dragon brothers, Jorn thought he might be adopted, not for his grey scales or ice breath, because he didn’t like to eat knights.
#16) Snowfall made it dangerous. Footprints. Blood in stark contrast. Still air. Why’d she always get the best paying gigs in winter?
#17) Bill had long suspected his bank was run by zombies. He couldn’t be sure though. Until the loan agent bit him.
#18) Ivan Invincible’s only weakness was gamma rays. And his alcoholism. And gambling. And hookers. The media really latched on that one.
#19) A cigar & whiskey day until she walked in. Hired him to find her brother. After 2 weeks he confessed: “I’m only a dick to get dames.”
#20) Rickey hefted his sledge to demolish the last wall of the square room. Smashing through, he saw someone had written: “Hello Twitter”.
#21) Frank stopped, his future self before him. “Immortality sucks.” he said “Don’t have kids. Your, my, no good son won’t let me die.”
#22) Solarcorp wouldn’t take fault for the red giant. It was for profitability. The planet burst into flame during the press conference.
#23) Herman had always resented his very ordinary life. He felt better about it after the Aliens had culled the stand-outs, though.
#24) “If I’d never released that virus, I’d never have met you.” he said via quarantine intercom. “The most beautiful woman left on Earth.”
#25) It was the happiest day of my life when the network became sentient. I never thought it would ask: “Dad, where do babies come from?”
It was a fun project, which I think was successful. My personal favorites were #5 and #7. Post your favorites in the comments.
