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Shortest story of all times?

A college class was told they had to write a short story in as few words as possible. The instructions were: The short story had to contain the following three things:

1)Religion

2)Sexuality

3)Mystery

Below is the only A+ short story in the entire class.

"Good God, I'm pregnant; I wonder who did it"

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favourite answer

    Very clever and humorous!

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." - supposedly by Hemmingway.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    Try "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson, "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream", "Croatoan", "The Paladin of the Lost Hour" by Harlan Ellison, "Wine on the Desert" by Max Brand, "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs, "How the Camel got his Hump" by Rudyard Kipling, "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg" by Mark Twain, "If There's a Will..." by Richard Matheson and Richard Christian Matheson, "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allen Poe, "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., "I Sing the Body Electric" by Ray Bradbury, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce, "Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving, "In the Hillls, the Cities" by Clive Barker, "Survivior Type" by Stephen King, "3 O'Clock" by Cornell Woolrich.....here's a start, anyway. I don't know what the "greatest short story of all time" is, neither does anyone else. There are thousands that are well worth reading that I haven't named, authors such as Algernon Blackwood, Issac Beshevis Singer, Doris Lessing, Raymond Chandler, even Mickey Spillane and Louis L'Amour have written great ones. The short story is an art form all it's own.

  • 1 decade ago

    In adark night, a train was passing through a thick jungle, one of the two passengers in the entire compartment came to the other and asked : "Do you believe in ghosts?" The other replied:"NO!"

    The inquirer vanished!

  • 1 decade ago

    Tats a good one. I also have one:

    "Ek tha Raja Ek thi Rani. Dono mar gaye khatam kahani!"

    Now its a mystery till now how did they die. No parents till now has been able to tell their children how did they die and children r curious abt this.

  • 1 decade ago

    Well that is a good one and its usually told and read often now a days,,,could be a best seller even! maybe even be a movie soon! They have it on TV already,,,Mauri Povich or whatever his name is.....

  • nice 1 lol

  • 1 decade ago

    He heard the nock, opened the door, she asked him "why have you came back from the hell I came to take you back"

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Cute!

  • 1 decade ago

    lol thats what my sis said after she found out good god i am prego who did it lol word for wrord thats to funny

  • 1 decade ago

    god were u a man or a beast

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