A long, long time ago, possibly when I was still a child, someone told me the world's shortest ghost story. It went like this:
The last man on earth sat in a room.
There was a knock at the door.
Does anyone else know any examples of the world's shortest (genre) story?
Here's a very short story/poem about the antiquity of fleas:
ReplyDeleteAdam
had 'em.
Are you sure it's a ghost story?
ReplyDeleteCouldn't it simply be that his wife had forgotten her keys?
The twentieth century's most famous maritime disaster in 4 words: 'Everything including kitchen sinks.'
ReplyDeleteErnest Hemingway was once challenged to write the shortest story possible. Here it is:
ReplyDelete'For sale: baby shoes, never worn.'
Moving and evocative, it says everything in just six words.