{"id":12338,"date":"2006-10-26T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-26T11:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/26\/very-short-stories\/"},"modified":"2006-10-26T11:49:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-26T11:49:00","slug":"very-short-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/26\/very-short-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Very Short Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Wired Magazine<\/i> has a fun feature entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/wired.com\/wired\/archive\/14.11\/sixwords.html\" target=\"_blank\">Very Short Stories<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We&rsquo;ll be brief: Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words (&ldquo;For sale: baby shoes, never worn.&rdquo;) and is said to have called it his best work. So we asked sci-fi, fantasy, and horror writers from the realms of books, TV, movies, and games to take a shot themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of our favorite auteurs put their words to paper, and five master graphic designers took them to the drawing board. Sure, Arthur C. Clarke refused to trim his (&ldquo;God said, &lsquo;Cancel Program GENESIS.&rsquo; The universe ceased to exist.&rdquo;), but the rest are concise masterpieces.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The online version has several dozen additional entries not included in the print version.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/humor\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">humor<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/language\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">language<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/literature\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">literature<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-116178764419986101?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired Magazine has a fun feature entitled Very Short Stories: We&rsquo;ll be brief: Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words (&ldquo;For sale: baby shoes, never worn.&rdquo;) and is said to have called it his best work. So we asked sci-fi, fantasy, and horror writers from the realms of books, TV, movies, and games &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/26\/very-short-stories\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Very Short Stories&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-12338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}