Succintness and the Writer: Very Short Stories

Wired Magazine had a frankly brilliant idea: invite a bunch to writers to write a story in six words (as Hemingway famously did: For sale: baby shoes, never worn).

Some excerpts:

Failed SAT. Lost scholarship. Invented rocket.
- William Shatner

It cost too much, staying human.
- Bruce Sterling

Heaven falls. Details at eleven.
- Robert Jordan

Will this do (lazy writer asked)?
- Ken MacLeod

I have no idea if this is relevant to NaNoWriMo which favours production over brevity, but who knows, maybe people will find it gives them the genesis of a new idea.