Category: Six Sentence Stories

  • I’ll Stick With Land: A Six Sentence Story

    I’ll Stick With Land: A Six Sentence Story

    I was about two hundred feet underwater when I felt I had to force oxygen into my lungs, and I didn’t think I could hold my breath as I swam fast, but not too fast to the surface so I wouldn’t suffer what divers call “the bends”–decompression sickness. It was…

  • The Dipmobile Rides Again

    The Dipmobile Rides Again

    Back in college, my dad, tired of having to repair my sporty, candy-green Volkswagen Sirocco lemon, turned it in for a shit-brown two-door Plymouth box on wheels. The car looked like my mom’s Dodge Dart, a car she was embarrassed to be seen driving, but her car looked like a…

  • Six Sentence Story: Inside the Tunnel

    Six Sentence Story: Inside the Tunnel

    Jack laid on the table as two techs applied straps across his chest and his left arm holding it stationary.  Ever since he was a teenager, he had had MRIs done every five years or so because he had a seizure disorder, but they were always for his brain.  This…