Grub Street Workshop 1

so in a valiant attempt to really anchor my decision to take my writing seriously i signed up for a six week workshop with the fabulous boston based grub street writers community.
The course i am taking is called 6 weeks, 6 stories. as you can guess, the concept is to write six weeks in six stories.
today in class, we were introduced to the concept of the six word story and the hint fiction: 25 words or less.
our instructor started out with an example of a famous 6 word story: Ernest Hemingway. his friend bet that hemingway couldn't write a six word story. he did. and he won the bet. his story is: For sale: baby shoes, never worn.

Another example:

Longed for him. Got him. Shit.
by margaret Atwood

to me, the whole concept of the six word story is to try to think of very archetypal words, phrases, things that are very emotionally charged, deeply implicit that even though you're not writing out a full story, those short six words tell a whole story.

this is my six word story:

i love him cz he's rich.

as for my hint fiction: 25 words or less:

she was the surgeon that performed my heart transplant. i fell in love with her and she broke my heart.



next class: flash fiction:
List story: write a story in list form 250 words or less.
Write a "complete" story that is one sentence long.
stayed tuned!

btw, this is the coolest!
The world's shortest horror story: the last man on earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door.
(author unknown)

gluttony is one of the seven sins

Our company has a corporate sponsorship with LA sports club, sports club of choice for trophy wives, bottle poppin girls and other assorted members of the Females for Labor Liberation Union.
We had a seminar today on healthy living. As I'd do just about anything to get out of doing actual constructive work, I was the first person to sign up.
Upon entering the seminar, they took my body fat percentage. The lady administering the test was making small talk, saying "you gotta love technology. this little machine though small and portable can give you an accurate reading in seconds!"

Then upon seeing my results, she kinda went "huh..."
silence.
then said, "there must be a mistake"

She proceeded to announce to the entire room that "in the entire time i've been a trainer, i've never seen someone of those proportions with such high body fat." then she emphasized quite soundedly again, "there has to be a mistake."


Actually, indeed such a feat can happen. I do indeed possess that high of a body fat %.
i took the same test a few years ago and had similar results. not to mention, i was warned by my doctor that i have dreaded high cholesterol! woe is me- no more fried oreos!

my friends, there is fat girl inside of me. tis true.
i eat cake like an asian girl eats rice. and im an asian girl so i know what i'm talking about.

So i had to awkwardly interrupt and confirm my bastardly 27.5% body fat.
everyone was aghast.
thankfully im not the kind to get offended.