Interesting Note: I used to be the manager of Marnie’s Noodle Shop! It was a great pan-Asian noodle shop in the West Village, back in Manhattan. I worked there for many years. Marnie closed the place almost ten years ago, but she put out a terrific cookbook with all her delicious recipies, called Everyday Asian. which I happened upon earlier this summer in a bookstore. The Biggest Surprise in her book? She Thanked Me in the acknowlegements! Naturally, I Bought The Book. (Now I just have to learn to Cook.)

There I was thinking about Marnie’s noodle shop when [some] aliens on [the] bus started loudly arguing right next to me. I wondered again, is it kiddie corner or caddy corner, but still how much does it fucking cost to use a commercial washer at a laundry mat, and will I have enough change when I get there? Feeling a pain in my right tonsil, I also thought of how to say ‘be quiet’ in hebrew, but then the guy in the next seat over turned and smiled and said in broken English, ‘You are very sexy women’. I sighed and wondered again why are Indian guys so clueless dating. [Again we're trying to do this with the shortest possible story to include the most terms]. Cheers, ‘VJ’

The cougar displays maximum cleavage possible to capture her prey.

‘Paul moyer is a asshole’. Because he used “a” instead of “an”. So I told him ‘how to say be quiet in hebrew’. And he told me, ‘you are very sexy women’. And I said, “stop with the plural, your grammar sucks ass. Then I showed him some ‘pacman pictures’ and he showed me ‘pictures of jewish food called surprise cupcakes’. After that I apologized for calling him AN asshole.

I admit I was the one who posted
“is 73 degrees too cold to wear shorts?”

ok, seriously now… I really was the one who used “aliens on a bus”

Since we’ve got so few takers on the story idea, how about a selection of the shortest stories ever sold:
Via Wired Mag. (I love Maggie’s…) Cheers, VJ

Sf stories that are 6 words long
Wired Magazine solicited six-word-long science fiction stories from a bunch of writers — some of my favorite results are below:

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

Computer, did we bring batteries? Computer? - Eileen Gunn

It cost too much, staying human. - Bruce Sterling

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

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

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

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

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

Batman Sues Batsignal: Demands Trademark Royalties. - Cory Doctorow

Help! Trapped in a text adventure! - Marc Laidlaw

Bush told the truth. Hell froze. - William Gibson

Thne there’s always the pros at this. It’s a flicker group: [http://www.flickr.com/groups/sixwordstory/]. Cheers & Good Luck, ‘VJ’