Looking For Something
 

The awkward pelican dives
from so far up there
from somewhere
close to the moon
wings spread
straight down
with purpose
determination
and such blazing speed
like a comet falls into the sea
watching him
(I am)
with childlike wonder and awe
(I am)
afraid his little neck will break
at the moment of actual impact
For such an aching hunger
dive, he must
he is not brave
his life simply depends on it
Rising back up from the sea
he longs to feel
just a little something
in his throat
that will justify
risking everything for
one more time

New Challenge: write a story in 6-words or less
 

Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words:

"For sale: baby shoes, never worn" and is said to have called it his best work.

Here are some from some favorite authors & auteurs.

Knowing all of you, I would bet that each of you could equal or surpass them.

Mine-no classic but tells a tale:

Failed orgasm. Electricity out. Batteries instead.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Vacuum collision. Orbits diverge. Farewell, love.
- David Brin

Gown removed carelessly. Head, less so.
- Joss Whedon

Automobile warranty expires. So does engine.
- Stan Lee

Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time
- Alan Moore

Longed for him. Got him. Shit.
- Margaret Atwood

His penis snapped off; he’s pregnant!
- Rudy Rucker

From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.
- Gregory Maguire

Internet “wakes up?” Ridicu -
no carrier.
- Charles Stross

With bloody hands, I say good-bye.
- Frank Miller

Wasted day. Wasted life. Dessert, please.
- Steven Meretzky

“Cellar?” “Gate to, uh … hell, actually.”
- Ronald D. Moore

Epitaph: Foolish humans, never escaped Earth.
- Vernor Vinge

It cost too much, staying human.
- Bruce Sterling

We kissed. She melted. Mop please!
- James Patrick Kelly

It’s behind you! Hurry before it
- Rockne S. O’Bannon

I’m your future, child. Don’t cry.
- Stephen Baxter

Lie detector eyeglasses perfected: Civilization collapses.
- Richard Powers

I’m dead. I’ve missed you. Kiss … ?
- Neil Gaiman

The baby’s blood type? Human, mostly.
- Orson Scott Card

Kirby had never eaten toes before.
- Kevin Smith

Rained, rained, rained, and never stopped.
- Howard Waldrop

To save humankind he died again.
- Ben Bova

We went solar; sun went nova.
- Ken MacLeod

Husband, transgenic mistress; wife: “You cow!”
- Paul Di Filippo

“I couldn’t believe she’d shoot me.”
- Howard Chaykin

Don’t marry her. Buy a house.
- Stephen R. Donaldson

How did I do?
 

Fantastic as usual!! Lol:)

Puppy, open gate - crash. Children cry.

Life lived, coffin lowered, no mourners.

Serial Killer Haiku

Evolution is
progressing from cutting pets
to the girl next door

story in 6-words or less
 

Now this is funny...and good. Or should I say bad?

"Damn! Dropped the toothpaste," he crestfallenly declared.

Suddenly, she quickly yet slowly opened the car window, inhaling...then exhaling, then inhaling........then exhaling again, the crisp but freakishly muggy foggy air that covered the light fading into bright blue sky.

The random livestock meandering somewhat haphazardly directly accross the paved and gravelly road, boardered on both sides by deep and shallow ditches, were over grown, jacked up on steroids and looking for a fight.

Between the smell of farmer's fields, sidewalk commando livestock and a "new car scent" air freshener hanging from the cigarette lighter knob of her 1978 Gremlin, she knew she was home!

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Story in 6-words or less...
 

Wrote her number in lipstick. Smeared.

In my dreams, she never left.

Stay calm. Act natural. Evening officer.

Flat tire. No jack. Bob's towing?

Empty heart
Now lives
Pumping again.


:heartbeat:

Tears fall

Wet face

Dry soul