Write a short sudden fiction story.
Regardless of its origin, this is an excellent example of flash or sudden fiction. Your assignment is to think about this six word story and write a mini-essay which answers the following questions:
What does a story need in order to be a story?
What questions does this story leave you with?
What do you think is happening beneath the surface of these six words?
Is the amount of what’s left unsaid unsettling? Interesting? Annoying?
Do you think it’s harder to write a short short story like this one or a longer work, like a novel? Why?