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Fun-Reading: World's Shortest Stories!
A.S. Rafi:
Augusto Monterroso is a Guatemalan short story writer best known for his 8-word story titled “El Dinosaurio”:
When I woke up, the dinosaur was still there.
[You might imagine a young girl who wakes in the morning to find her pet Dino faithfully at her bedside.
Or you might imagine a lost traveler who’s become a T-Rex lunch, passed out because his legs are torn to shreds, and then wakes up to find the T-Rex picking the meat from his finger bones.]
(source:web)
A.S. Rafi:
Story 2:
US Author Earnest Hemingway was famously economical in his style. He was once challenged, supposedly for the price of his bar bill, to write a complete story in only six words. Hemingway rose to the challenge brilliantly:
For sale: baby shoes, never worn
[Source: www.writerinthenorth.blogspot.com]
A.S. Rafi:
However the myth that Hemingway wrote that above mentioned shorter and more powerful story, turns out to be a humbug!!! After some research it looks like this story was not written by Hemingway. It was most likely an actual ad in a newspaper, except selling a baby carriage :)
A.S. Rafi:
Probably this is the manipulated version of that Ad. Check it out!!!
A.S. Rafi:
another sample:
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