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Give over, Ray!

Posted by Ewan on October 11, 2008 - 09:38
from the ABC set The Long and the Short of It...

A door slammed. Her car started. She didn't wave. The gravel leapt.

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FTSE100 | October 11, 2008 - 10:40

Short poems
are fun.
You can see at a glance
whether you
like them
or not.
- Steve Turner -

I guess the same applies to stories.
You've always said a lot with few words, Ewan. I'm waiting for the day when you post a single-word story. Or maybe just a punctuation mark?

I've considered this Turner-wise and concluded that: I like it.

chuck | October 11, 2008 - 13:46

Hemingway came up with a really clever shorty but it's such a downer I won't repeat it.

Ewan | October 11, 2008 - 17:20

Is it the small-ad one?

chuck | October 11, 2008 - 20:07

Yes that one. What the heck....this is no time to be squeamish...

"For sale: Baby shoes. Never used."

FTSE100 | October 12, 2008 - 14:32

A rather longer version of that is the League of Gentlemen sketch where a woman takes a bag of unused baby clothes and toys to the charity shop. The women in the shop are only concerned with whether the teddy bear has a safety mark. "Take it to the spastics, they'll take anything." Not very PC, but funny and touching at the same time.