by Ashley Lister
On Saturday this week, I was lucky enough to attend the
first day of this year’s Eroticon, the conference for writers and bloggers who
work with erotica. As always, it was a
wonderful experience. The erotica writing community is one of the most supportive
environments a writer could encounter. Each year, I find the event is akin to
meeting up with my dearest friends.
Whilst there I was delivering a session on plotting erotic
fiction but, before we began, I gave the writers in the room a brief warm-up
exercise.
Most of us are familiar with the apocryphal story of
Hemingway writing a six word short story. (For Sale. Baby Shoes. Never
Worn). And it was the idea of a six word
short story that I offered to those attendees participating in my session. In
short, I asked them to produce the sexiest short story they could think of in
six words.
I offered some of my own examples to illustrate the point.
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Him hard. Her wet. Both satisfied.
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Her: “Harder! Faster!”
Him: “Tighter! Wetter!”
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A vampire? He’ll get lucky. Period.
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As always, please post your six word stories in the comments
box below. I look forward to reading
them.
Ash
I wait, restrained, whilst she prepares.
Love it.
Tomorrow morning. My garden. Bring water.
This is clever – and kudos for making it up on the spot at Eroticon.
Your back door welcomed me in.
Delightful. Good writing, Martin.
This really *is* a sort of poetry, Ash. The reader has to fill in a lot from suggestion, connotation and imagination.
I wonder if this one gets through at all. I have a very distinct idea in mind.
Winter light. Puddled silk. Sex object.
I'm not sure if we have the same idea, but this one certainly works for me. It's a very eloquent piece.
She called. You answered. Number changed.
That one's so pithy. Nice use of the tight word count.
Thank you!