Monday, September 28, 2009

stories in 6 words

provoked by the man on the train sitting next to me who was reading Novels in Three Lines, I remembered that day in Hong Kong where I was challenged to tell my life story in 6 words like Ernest Hemingway once did. JUXTAPOSE that shit with the announcement made by LMazz to a group of my comrades yesterday that I speak in absolute, hyperbolic, profanity laced language along with my disdain for Charles Dickens and what we have is a triangulation of great writers and me attempting a story of a woman [girl] 24 years of age:

simultaneously: fucking best and fucking worst.

the 6 word story is a bit of a favorite thing of mine and often invokes real feelings. here are 3 from wired mag that really caught my eye:

Longed for him. Got him. Shit.- Margaret Atwood  
Feelings: Mirthfulness  
K.I.A. Baghdad, Aged 18 - Closed Casket- Richard K. Morgan 
Feelings: The Doldrums 
Dorothy: "Fuck it, I'll stay here."- Steven Meretzky
Feelings: Inadequacy

1 comment:

nuts said...

Hey, miss potty mouth..........