Leaving 10,000…: A terrifyingly short story

Leaving 10,000…: A terrifyingly short story

“Terrifyingly short”?  Not really what you want to threaten me with…

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Zsuzsa
Zsuzsa
3 years ago

Well, I don’t know. You might be terrified that our poor, cursed plane won’t be able to deal with “a violent storm…Delays, medical emergencies, a highjacker, injuries and death” before the page count runs out.

Yes, that’s right, a “highjacker.”

On the other hand, maybe this book can’t end fast enough.

Naaman Brown
Naaman Brown
3 years ago
Reply to  Zsuzsa

Highjack is a seldom used spelling of hijack.

Wikipedia redirects search for “highjack” to a disambigulation page for “hijack”.

Dictionaries that list “highjack” as a definition include as examples of usage newspaper stories that use the more common spelling “hijack”.

Naaman Brown
Naaman Brown
3 years ago

It’s a short story.
How short?
TERRIFYINGLY SHORT.

Jasini
Jasini
3 years ago
Reply to  Naaman Brown

How short is terrifyingly? One word? Two words?

Naaman Brown
Naaman Brown
3 years ago
Reply to  Jasini

Terrifyingly short? Forrest J Ackerman editor of “Famous Monsters of Filmland” wrote the shortest sci-fi story ever: “Cosmic Report Card: Earth”, one letter with no punctuation. 

Jasini
Jasini
3 years ago
Reply to  Naaman Brown

F?

RK@HM
RK@HM
3 years ago

A play there is, my lord, some ten words long

(Which is as brief as I have known a play),

But by ten words, my lord, it is too long,

Which makes it tedious; for in all the play,

There is not one word apt, one player fitted.

—William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V, Scene I.

Johno McMoose
Johno McMoose
3 years ago

10,000 characters (including spaces) might be a quite regular story (or an overly long short story), but it’d surely make a terrifyingly short novel.

LBC Participant
LBC Participant
3 years ago

Is it wrong to hope the author was on that plane?

Hitch
3 years ago

OMG, can I upvote this one 5,000x?

Zsuzsa
Zsuzsa
3 years ago

Yes. It’s wrong to wish harm on any other human being regardless of how lousy their book covers.

Hoping that the only copy of the author’s next work were on that plane, however…well, say an extra couple of “Our Father”s at bedtime, and I’ll bet God will call it even.

LBC Participant
LBC Participant
3 years ago
Reply to  Zsuzsa

Is it 1984 already? Where does the time go?