Hemingway once wrote a very brief story in just six words: "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." and is said to have called it his best work.
The magazine Wired invited a whole bunch of sci-fi writers to write their concise masterpieces of six words and I've happily happened to stumble across them. Here are a few:
Failed SAT. Lost scholarship. Invented rocket.
-William Shatner
Longed for him. Got him. Shit.
- Margaret Atwood
From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.
- Gregory Maguire
Epitaph: Foolish humans, never escaped Earth.
- Vernor Vinge
We kissed. She melted. Mop please!
- James Patrick Kelly
The baby's blood type? Human, mostly.
- Orson Scott Card
Dinosaurs return. Want their oil back.
- David Brin
And I've got one of my own although I am not a writer of masterpieces or of anything else either:
Why expect anything to be simple?
- me
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"Why expect anything to be simple".
Here you have the basic underlying thought pattern to become an accountant - You know "Why make it simple if you can make it more complicated?"
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