I was recently recommended Terribly Tiny Tales which seems like an entirely new genre. An interesting one at that since one has to write very short stories. In some cases just as big as 160 characters. Well, I coudn't resist trying my hand at some of those, though it seems that most become "Tragically Tiny Tales", tragedies and twists being easier to portray in this format. Writing in this format seems like walking on a tightrope: it's very easy to slip and fall on the floor of ridiculousness or worse, ordinariness rather than walk along the line of genuineness. Thus would love to know which of these do manage to toe the line!
TTT1: All the people she longed to have tea and long conversations with, had time now and were having tea and long conversations, at her funeral.
TTT2: "Your place or mine", she asked. "Ours", he replied slipping the ring into her wrinkled finger.
TTT3: "She survived cancer!", he rejoiced, speeding up as he sailed overboard and couldn't survive the car crash.
TTT4: Theirs was a story of words. Yet they never talked.
TTT5: In her childhood, she longed to settle and they used to wander. In her youth, they did settle, while she got used to wandering.
TTT6: Ten years ago, we talked for the first time, enthralled in each others words till 4am. Ten years, a marriage and a kid later, we still do sometimes!
P.S: I had started this post much earlier with the title. In retrospect it seems less tragic at least in the literal sense of the word!
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