There was a nod to Hemingway’s Flash Fiction six-word story in The Story & the Engine .
Hemingway’s most famous is this one, a very sad tale:
"For sale: baby shoes, never worn." is a six-word story, and one of the most famous examples of flash fiction. Versions of the story date back to the early 1900s, and it was being reproduced and expanded upon within a few years of its initial publication.
The story is popularly misattributed to Ernest Hemingway; this is implausible, as versions of the story first appeared in 1906, when Hemingway was 7 years old, and it was first attributed to him in 1991, 30 years after his death.
The story i...
(Note that Hemingway probably didn’t write it, because it was written when he was only 7 and then attributed to him 30 years after his death
Of course the Doctor’s six word story is very clever:
I’m born. I die. I’m born.
Write your Doctor Who Flash Fiction below! It doesn’t have to only be six words, but that is a fun idea!
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Hey, who turned out the lights?
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Interesting!
But those were penned by RTD and Moffat
Write something new!
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I am Doctor Who looks at my box it go vworp vworp and timely wimey ensues
Well, what do you think?
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Who turned out the lights? Hey!
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In time, he comes with hope.
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Saturday evening. Turn the box on!
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Barbecue invitation! Oh no… Slitheen lunch.
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“Victor Kennedy wants to talk to you in private.”
Love and Monsters used to scare me so much by the way
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The day I first met him, I killed him.
It was meant to be
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The sofa. It was always safe behind the sofa.
Except this time, the monsters were behind the sofa too.
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Honestly, Doctor Who should make an episode revolving around something being behind the sofa. I think you’re onto something there.
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Tian
16 May 2025 20:29
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Creative writing is not my best quality but let’s give it a try:
What kind of camouflage is that?
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(This is about River Song…)
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Rainbow’s End: Pot Found. Mimic Feasts.
(Might have listened to a D&D podcast today for a bit
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Something Heaven Sent inspired, maybe
Loop number… lost track. Again. Again.
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Ooooh I like this… how about:
The day he met me, I died
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Yes that works too, but consider:
I don’t know if you can ‘meet’ someone if they are newborn (I know people use that term, but really, it’s not a two-way thing if they are a baby)
I liked the symmetry of both of them dying
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but perhaps the Doctor did something timey-wimey there?)
