"Quickly, before we're discovered!" "Too late."

[constance]

After a couple of days sans reliable internet access, I return not with the post of delicious links I had planned, also not with a description of the feeling I had this afternoon of living inside a zen koan because I've forgotten by now what inspired it which if you think about it is sort of a zen koan in itself, but a proposal inspired by a Wired article of six-word stories by sf/f writers linked from Neil Gaiman's blog. The idea of a six-word story! I am ravished! I want you to write me a six-word story! And in return, I will write you one. Please? Pretty please, with a cherry on top?

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[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

Goodbye. Cremate me. It's your fault.

Apples are delicious!...God's here? Shit.

Full moon. I need a shave.

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

Don't bite the hand that - OUCH!

[tofty.livejournal.com]

The only thing left: icy silence.

Let's try it without the typo.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Retrospective: Whole worlds conquered. Not bad.

"Give me liberty or give me --"

"We'll need peppermints. And a flense."

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

http://lolaraincoat.livejournal.com/235224.html

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Heh. Clearly, I need to get out more!

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

I think you and lolaraincoat would get along just fine. She's an academic who lives in Toronto with her musician/physicist boyfriend. I met her at The Witching Hour. She is very cool.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

I think we would! bowdlerized adores her and has long sung her praises to me, but I am really shy about friending people. I almost never do it unless I'm sure it's welcome. Because I am a weenie.

[kickthebeat.livejournal.com]

you always were the only one.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Lesson learned. No fencing while drunk.

[laurelwood.livejournal.com]

Was dinner poisoned? Time will tell.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Seven years. Broken mirrors don't lie.

[amelia-eve.livejournal.com]

I shot my wad over at lolaraincoat's lj as well, and I second the motion that you should friend her because she is indeed very cool.

Oh yeah, my wad was actually a quotation:

I came, I saw, I conquered.

Lola also mentions sixlittlewords. It's fun!

(That was six, right?)

Caesar revisited two millenia later:

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Sic transit gloria mundi, my ass.

Squee! It's kinda like haiku!

[21stcenturysei.livejournal.com]

She wasn't aware of the ephemera.

Re: Squee! It's kinda like haiku!

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Why can't he remember his name?

Pregnancy test

[lindyhoppr.livejournal.com]

One; yes. Two; no. 1 1/2?

Check out the drama.

Excellent! :D

[tofty.livejournal.com]

He's afraid of the dark. Rightly.

[aliciamasters.livejournal.com]

"Detention!" Severus snapped. Harry blinked. "Clothing?"

or...

Harry lifted the rocket-launcher. "Oh, Voldemort..."