August: Choose Your Top Three Results!

This monthly project aims to showcase the six word stories that you find awesome!

At the beginning of the month, we asked you to choose your top three favourite six word stories from this folder. Firstly, many thanks to these people who participated:


The results were quite scattered! However, there were three pieces that tied as the most liked, which will be shown on our front page for a month!

Congratulations to...

XShe remembered to forget her name.
UniqueStrangeAwesome says, "'X' somehow manages to accomplish a form of eager thrill in only six words and leaves the reader wondering about the story behind the piece."

Music---Junky says, "Sounds like the start of an interesting story!"

lalaith913 says, "I can't nail it down but it's the feeling you have when you wake up from a bad dream."

mitoXD says, "A smart play with contradictions."


Loves Me NotOur time was measured in petals.
MajorasMasks says, "Simple and romantic. It sounds poetic, too."

BATTLEFAIRIES says, "This one's pretty and sad at the same time. What a beautiful sentence."

lalaith913 says, "Sums up first love in 6 words. Everyone had that person in his or her life that they left romance to chance with."

FieryDownpour479 says, "An interesting take on a fun childhood game! This piece contains a lot of symbolism, and easily shows how short the character's love lasted."


convos"I worry about our conversations."
"Meeeooww."
MajorasMasks says, "Basically, anyone with a cat goes through this. "

BATTLEFAIRIES says, "This one just hits the spot. It's not forced at all, and has a one-word punchline which I like so very much...!"

SECRET-NINJA-SUPER-M says, "This one makes me laugh, I can very clearly imagine some of my friends having moments like this."

mitoXD says, "Hilariously self-evident indeed."

Other popular ones were...

[p] laying deadon-stage, gunshots rang.
audience fell, silent.
UniqueStrangeAwesome says, "It's amazingly brief and only until you read it again do you realize the play on words in the title and in the words "on-stage" and "audience"."

BATTLEFAIRIES says, "I appreciate a nice pun every once in a while. Hurray for puns!"

FieryDownpour479 says, "This is one of my favorite six word stories! The story itself is action packed and the title adds even more to the story, making the piece very vivid in the reader's mind."


Breathe AgainHis lips tasted like grave dirt.
Music---Junky says, "I love this. It makes you picture the kiss, the taste of dirt, and it makes you wonder!"


Shadow
...gone...

you exist only in memory
SECRET-NINJA-SUPER-M says, "Shadow - There's a lot of... grief in this one. It reminds me of so many people I sometimes still think about."


I Missed"I love you!"
"Wait...what?"
"Nothing."
Music---Junky says, "I thought this great use of dialogue was simple but powerful, relatable, and can have a variety of meanings."

As for our raffle, the lucky winner is... FieryDownpour479!

Congratulations FieryDownpour479, one of your six word stories will be shown alongside the winning piece on our front page for a month!


That is it for this month, but may this act as encouragement for you to write your six word stories and submit them into this folder! Submissions are automatically approved into the folder, and you are allowed to post five pieces a month!

If your piece was not featured above and you would like to know what people said about your piece, please note 3wyl privately.

Thank you!