I had to delete this story, so I thought I'd post the whole thing here:

I was in 2nd year uni at malibu U and i had just met this girl Johana she tied me up a cut off my balls the end.

Sorry, your story was a little too short to meet our requirements for posting on the story board, but I didn't want the world to miss out on this literary masterpiece.

"...I was at university in a small southern town when I met bubba, the biggest, burliest man I had ever seen. He was gap toothed with a few missing teeth, but with a smile that would melt the heart of any NASCAR fan from 500 feet. Nothing turns me on like the moonshine laced breath of a guy that looks like he came right out of the movie Deliverance. So I handed him my knife and he cut my balls off.

The end"

Can I have that story posted?

Literature in the age of Twitter.

How about a contest for the best EA story that can fit in, shall we say three tweets. That would be 420 characters. I am sure some here could improve on this sample.

Transward

As a model for Transward’s challenge to the Archive community, a joke that’s probably as old as River or MacWolfie:

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

(1) Religion,

(2) Sexuality, and

(3) Mystery

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

“Good God, I’m pregnant; I wonder who did it.”

Can anyone here top that for brevity and staying on (castration) topic???

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One could update it for the political and biological currents of the twenty first century as follows:

“Good God," he said, "I’m pregnant; I wonder who did it.”

Transward

Deciding the original story was too wordy, I condensed it.

"Why, Johana?" the new eunuch asked.

transward (imported) wrote: Thu Jul 29, 2010 2:18 pm How about a contest for the best EA story that can fit in, shall we say three tweets. That would be 420 characters. I am sure some here could improve on this sample.

Transward

Ok, well, I manged to post one just now that's 420 words (not characters).

sensenbender (imported) wrote: Thu Jul 29, 2010 10:39 pm Ok, well, I manged to post one just now that's 420 words (not characters).

If writing a story to meet this challenge, I would recommend posting it to this board not to the story archive.

"Good God, I'm castrated! Will I like it?"