I feel like that’s a question, and not a story. A six word story could be more like: “Gun-handed Dracula shot Van Helsing dead” or, if you count hyphenated words as two words, you could do: “Gun-handed Dracula shot Van Helsing”
Yeah, Jeremiah is what Poe was referencing in terms of his narrator character’s desperation to recover from the heartache of his own loss, but it was The Raven that I had in mind, not the prophet in Babylon.
I feel like that’s a question, and not a story. A six word story could be more like: “Gun-handed Dracula shot Van Helsing dead” or, if you count hyphenated words as two words, you could do: “Gun-handed Dracula shot Van Helsing”
Can’t a question be a story?
Is there no balm in Gilead?
That got dark quickly. I’m sincerely impressed. Good job.
Just a paraphrase of Poe, no credit due to me!
Is that not from the Bible?
Yeah, Jeremiah is what Poe was referencing in terms of his narrator character’s desperation to recover from the heartache of his own loss, but it was The Raven that I had in mind, not the prophet in Babylon.
A misatribution of Hemingway leading all the way back to Babylon is one hell of a rabbit hole. I love the Fediverse for this.