Writing Challenge: Write a six-word story

[GrahamLewis]

In boring darkness, everyone lit up.

 

[Louanne Learning]

Shhh. Want to know a secret?

 

[Kerrin]

Shhh. Want to know a secret?

Do you promise not to tell?

 

[Rath Darkblade]

Shhh. Want to know a secret?

Do you promise not to tell?

Let me whisper in your ear.

 

[THUNDAIR]

No! I've heard it all before.

 

[GrahamLewis]

Say the words you long to hear.

 

[Selluwud]

Beatles make music that last forever.

 

[edamame]

My neighbors are retired Soviet spies.

 

[THUNDAIR]

A neutrino storm through my brain.

 

[GrahamLewis]

I was so much younger then.

 

[Selluwud]

Lost love, never to be found.

 

[Rath Darkblade]

I was so much younger then.

I am older than that now.

 

[Louanne Learning]

The idea was to taste life.

 

[GrahamLewis]

Today you're up, tomorrow you're down.

 

[GrahamLewis]

I am older than that now.

Lies that life's black and white

 

[Louanne Learning]

Beware: one foot in the grave.

 

[Selluwud]

Neither here nor there, somewhere between.

 

[Louanne Learning]

In life, he was a renter.

 

[GrahamLewis]

I told you I was sick.

 

[Louanne Learning]

But we had music, didn't we?

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The idea for this six-word story came from a post in my inbox this morning, from the Marginalian. The site offers "pop-up" poems. The one that popped up this morning seems appropriate for some of our recent posts here!


BUT WE HAD MUSIC

Right this minute
across time zones and opinions
people are
making plans
making meals
making promises and poems

while

at the center of our galaxy
a black hole with the mass of
four billion suns
screams its open-mouth kiss
of oblivion...