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"Scare the World in Six Words" is getting scary
Published: 10/20/2009 2:10 PM
Last Modified: 10/20/2009 2:10 PM


Submit your six word stories soon.

I fear I've created a monster.

That's six words, by the way.

On Sunday, we announced that we wanted to see if our readers could come up with a six-word sentence that told -- or at least, implied -- a story that would be appropriate for the Halloween season.

Normally, when the World puts out a request for reader contributions to a story, the reaction can be...well, underwhelming. Last year, for example, we asked readers to tell about the books that frightened them. Less than a dozen people sent in stories -- fortunately, the majority of those stories were pretty good, and we were able to use them.

So we -- and by "we," of course, I mean "me" -- did not have very high hopes about the response our "Scare the World in Six Words" contest would receive.

Well. Here it is, just two days after the story ran, and I officially logged in the 100th entry.

This does not mean we've had 100 six-word stories submitted. Many of our correspondents have turned in multiple examples in their emails. Quite a few have sent several, separate emails -- each of which contains five or six stories-in-a-sentence.

English teachers at local high schools are making it a classroom exercise, to write a six-word story, which they intend to submit in bulk.

Dear me -- what have i started?

That's another six-worder.

My thoughts come in six words.

It can make conversation somewhat stilted.

And my copy reads like Cronley's.

Anyway -- we're quite pleased with how this is taken off. And we'll be continuing to accept your six-word scary stories until Wednesday of next week, Oct. 28.

Then we'll have to read through all these and select the ones that will get the prizes and that we'll feature in the paper and on the website.

So stay tuned, and keep writing.




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James D. Watts Jr. has lived in Oklahoma for most his life, even though he still has people saying to him, "Don't sound like you're from around these parts." A University of Oklahoma Phi Beta Kappa graduate, Watts has received the Governor Arts Award, Harwelden Award and the National Conference of Christians and Jews Beth Macklin Award for his writing. Before coming to the Tulsa World, Watts worked for the Tulsa Tribune.

Contact him at (918) 581-8478.

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