Six word stories
"For sale: baby shoes, never used."
-- Ernest Hemmingway (attributed)
Caterina asked her web audience to come up with their own six word stories, and they responded in force. The following are some of my favourites.
Leave that alone; remember Mary's scab.
I loved; I lost; I'm sorry.
and then she went to sleep.
-- Linda
She watched the world end.
Again.
They lived, they suffered, they died.
--
Mike's Ancient History Professor
"She said nothing could go wrong."
Walking home, she regained her virginity.
-- Jim Lyon
It wasn't her fault. Not entirely.
The audience applauded, as he wept.
today, I threw her toothbrush away.
Happy: My pillow still smells of her.
Sad: My pillow still smells of her.
The sun rose one last time.
[ 05 October 2006 1:34 am submitted by Unknown
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Full Circle
Interestingly, the name has come full circle, entering Israeli Hebrew as the name [..] Shon, which derives from English Shawn, which derives from Irish Seán, which derives from French Jean, which derives from Latin Johann (variants: Iohann and Ivan v is pronounced as 'u'), a simplification of Johannes, which derives from Greek Ιωαννης, Iōhannēs, which was loaned from Mishnaic Hebrew [..] Yôḥānān during the Second Temple Period, after John the Apostle.
[ 04 October 2006 7:52 pm submitted by Unknown
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To use violence successfully
Neoconservatives seem to fear that America -- by braving the perils of
dissent and democracy -- will be similarly weakened. Part of what makes
America "great" is, theoretically at least, its reluctance to use force
against other nations. Yet, fearful that standards such as this place us
at a disadvantage in the real world, some neoconservatives advocate that
America needs to win a war somewhere, to use violence successfully.
Their insecurity would have us violate American values -- to mirror the
hideous brutality of less open societies -- in order to preserve them.
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