{"id":449,"date":"2021-06-15T09:29:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T17:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/?p=449"},"modified":"2021-09-06T16:45:32","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T00:45:32","slug":"four-word-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/four-word-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Word Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most famous short story is Ernest Hemingway&#8217;s six-word story, For Sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.<\/p>\n<p>A few examples of sad short stories are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Combat boots unlaced forever.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Population zero, plus us.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">We\u2019re out of chocolate.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">The phone never rang.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Meanwhile she moved on.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sjtownend\/status\/1404552616546344968\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here are lots more examples of sad stories<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Try writing a happy story in four words.<\/p>\n<p>How about a four-word horror story? Here are a few prompts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The email didn&#8217;t deliver.<\/li>\n<li>I didn&#8217;t hit save.<\/li>\n<li>Rain in the forecast.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Think of your own four-word horror story and share it with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most famous short story is Ernest Hemingway&#8217;s six-word story, For Sale. Baby shoes. Never worn. A few examples of sad short stories are: Combat boots unlaced forever. Population zero, plus us. We\u2019re out of chocolate. The phone never rang. Meanwhile she moved on. Here are lots more examples of sad stories. Try writing a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction-prompts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":894,"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fathompublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}