Six word symopses, not science fiction

Fox — 10/29/2006 7:27:30 PM (archived)

The 'scifaiku' craze has taken over the Space board... rightly so.

But not every Zoner is exclusively an SF geek, so I thought I'd spread the meme over here, expanded to include the rest of literature.

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Six word symopses, not science fiction - Fox - 10/29/2006 7:27:30 PM
- Abstinence: tried it, didn't like it. (n/t) - ER - 11/1/2006 1:52:03 PM
  - Absinth: Tried it, became an author. (n/t) - et - 11/1/2006 5:50:26 PM
    - Too shay, touche, you got me! (n/t) - ER - 11/1/2006 7:21:13 PM
- Fall, Dough mixer- New Baker Kneaded (n/t) - :-) - 11/1/2006 2:52:41 AM
- Fox creates monster. Die! Die! Die! (n/t) - Laurie Street - 10/31/2006 7:17:29 PM
  - Throw the switch and........"It's alive!" (n/t) - podrock - 10/31/2006 8:25:50 PM
- Fat kid murdered by falling boulder (n/t) - SDG - 10/31/2006 5:19:33 PM
  - Kill the pig, spill it's blood! (n/t) - et - 11/1/2006 5:49:50 PM
- Jack rescues Santa, finds true love. - Mary Anne - 10/31/2006 2:28:28 PM
- Dachshund displays bravery, costume be damned! - Mary Anne - 10/31/2006 2:22:56 PM
- Talking pumpkin doesn't scare this woman. - Mary Anne - 10/31/2006 2:18:23 PM
- Icabod flees phantom Horseman. Lucky Katrina! (n/t) - Mary Anne - 10/31/2006 2:15:09 PM
  - Titles - TB - 11/1/2006 9:21:01 PM
  - Sleepy Hollow to install new sculpture - Fox - 10/31/2006 6:28:06 PM
- Against conspiracy theorists, reason is futile. (n/t) - ER - 10/31/2006 1:47:44 PM
- Nasty kids' plane crashes on island. (n/t) - ER - 10/31/2006 3:14:31 AM
- Mary Anne absent. 3 hour cruise? (n/t) - SDG - 10/31/2006 12:55:04 AM
  - Hallowe'en is here! Rejoice! Be glad! (n/t) - Mary Anne - 10/31/2006 2:06:03 PM
    - That is, I'm storytelling this week. (n/t) - Mary Anne - 10/31/2006 2:07:39 PM
- Humbert robs cradle; Nabokov enriches lexicon (n/t) - Fox - 10/31/2006 12:38:50 AM
  - Cleverest example of the genre yet. (n/t) - ER - 10/31/2006 9:50:58 PM
- Hornblower, the unsure but lucky Captain (n/t) - SDG - 10/31/2006 12:36:26 AM
  - Ah--er, Hmmm. (n/t) - ER - 10/31/2006 9:52:27 PM
  - "Lucky Jack" Aubrey, unlucky Steven Maturin (n/t) - Fox - 10/31/2006 3:21:36 AM
    - Jack gets Lucky with Hart's wife (n/t) - SDG - 10/31/2006 7:30:13 PM
    - Maturin ventures off, too detailed, boring (n/t) - SDG - 10/31/2006 7:28:45 PM
- Phantom lonely, Christine troubled, Raul interrupts. (n/t) - SDG - 10/30/2006 11:38:27 PM
- Crusoe shipwrecked, Friday is his man (n/t) - SDG - 10/30/2006 11:28:49 PM
- Save world? End it? Fine line. (n/t) - alcaray - 10/30/2006 10:57:42 PM
- Naked Ape: Animals screw, humans too. (n/t) - Tony - 10/30/2006 10:43:48 PM
- Guns, Germs, Steel; location location location. (n/t) - SDG - 10/30/2006 10:38:12 PM
- Mother......This lady needs a shower. (n/t) - Tony - 10/30/2006 9:15:10 PM
- Buttercup kidnapped, Man In Black saves (n/t) - SDG - 10/30/2006 8:58:18 PM
  - Original too wordy, Grandpa mercifully trims (n/t) - SDG - 10/30/2006 9:14:24 PM
    - Too much kissing. More sword fights! - Tony - 10/30/2006 9:17:55 PM
      - ROUS look like family dog. Nickname! (n/t) - alcaray - 11/2/2006 6:14:11 PM
- Beginning, light. Work, rest. Whatta mess! (n/t) - Bowser - 10/30/2006 6:19:43 PM
- Dead husband, hot widow, OH NO! (n/t) - Bowser - 10/30/2006 6:17:43 PM
- Wife says â€œMary Jane needs braâ€ (n/t) - REB - 10/30/2006 5:32:41 PM
  - MJ wet shirt, Spidey senses tingle (n/t) - REB - 10/30/2006 5:33:48 PM
    - Wife hit head, no more Spiderman (n/t) - REB - 10/30/2006 5:34:38 PM
- MODEM said: "no, no, yes". Teaser! - alcaray - 10/30/2006 5:18:32 PM
- If there is a winner in all this... - Laurie Street - 10/30/2006 5:17:03 PM
- Coconuts, swallows, shrubberies, rabbit, duck, wood (n/t) - REB - 10/30/2006 4:13:39 PM
- Whips Okay But Snakes not Okay - REB - 10/30/2006 3:35:03 PM
- Should have got a bigger boat. (n/t) - Laurie - 10/30/2006 5:32:14 AM
- Oklahoma really sucks. Anybody for California? (n/t) - TB - 10/30/2006 4:37:11 AM
  - California really sucks. Anybody for Oklahoma? - Okie Yetie - 10/30/2006 5:19:35 AM
- Caught the frigging marlin. Now what? (n/t) - TB - 10/30/2006 4:34:34 AM
- Monday morning, AND I'm a bug. (n/t) - TB - 10/30/2006 3:24:12 AM
  - I'm laughing out loud. Thanks, T. (n/t) - Mary Anne - 10/31/2006 2:30:12 PM
- Skinflint, three ghosts save lame boy - Fox - 10/30/2006 3:15:54 AM
  - More? Go find some rich suckers.. (n/t) - Tony - 10/30/2006 9:29:46 PM
- Underage infatuated dimwits love, fight, die (n/t) - tony - 10/30/2006 2:58:25 AM
  - Beat me to R&J, darn ya (n/t) - Fox - 10/30/2006 3:10:22 AM
    - Cleo's a hottie. What an asp. - Tony - 10/30/2006 9:41:37 PM
      - "Funny, she doesn't look Shrewish..." (n/t) - Fox - 10/31/2006 3:48:05 AM
      - Fairies and Bottom: what an ass (n/t) - Fox - 10/31/2006 3:45:18 AM
    - Ships came in! Sucks being Jewish. (n/t) - Tony - 10/30/2006 9:28:18 PM
    - Got a hunch I'll need a horse. (n/t) - Tony - 10/30/2006 9:26:54 PM
    - Et tu? Brutus is a doofus. (n/t) - Tony - 10/30/2006 3:33:48 PM
    - Die! Dagger? Blood? Trees? Unborn? Aaargh! (n/t) - Tony - 10/30/2006 2:22:21 PM
      - Party on Falstaff. Crap, gotta fight. (n/t) - Tony - 10/30/2006 2:30:37 PM
        
        Bugger off Falstaff, I'm King now. (n/t) - Tony - 10/30/2006 2:31:40 PM
        
        I am Henry the fifth I am.... (n/t) - et - 11/1/2006 5:51:59 PM
        
        French wives are sexier. Invade France! (n/t) - Tony - 10/30/2006 2:33:09 PM
        
        Into the breach, *again*? Oh, bugger... (n/t) - Fox - 10/31/2006 12:49:27 AM
        
        Against knights, peasants can do nothing! (n/t) - alcaray - 10/30/2006 9:42:20 PM
        
        Think so, Frenchy? Well, pluck yew! - Fox - 10/31/2006 12:42:19 AM
        
        Not cutting hay this Crispin's Day! (n/t) - pEasanT farmer - 11/1/2006 8:33:34 PM
        
        Well I don't give a fig! (n/t) - alcaray - 10/31/2006 4:22:22 PM
        
        Middle fingers unsevered? My teachers lied..... - Tony - 10/31/2006 2:50:35 AM
- "I'm a wizard? Voldemort must die!" (n/t) - Laurie Street - 10/29/2006 9:15:13 PM
  - Preteens behaving magically. Dont tell grown-ups. (n/t) - Tony - 10/30/2006 10:39:27 PM
    - Ministry of Magic incompetent, call Harry (n/t) - SDG - 10/30/2006 11:58:44 PM
- Got ring, walked, fought, destroyed ring. (n/t) - Laurie Street - 10/29/2006 9:12:06 PM
- Tout est perdu, fors l'honneur! - Raoul - 10/29/2006 7:48:12 PM
- "Vengence is mine", saith Captain Ahab (n/t) - Fox - 10/29/2006 7:28:05 PM

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