Could you write a story in exactly six words?
That’s the challenge the English Faculty have set you!
Your story can be about absolutely anything. The only rule? It has to comprise exactly six words.
To enter the competition, post your story as a comment on this post, along with your name and English teacher, or tweet us your entry (@englishatlc), or hand your story in on paper to your English teacher directly.
The deadline is Friday 2nd October.
Need some inspiration? Here are some classics…
Can you do better?
We’ll see!
Good luck!
English at Lutterworth College 
“TSUNAMI WARNING! What should I pack?”
LikeLike
Love it!
LikeLike
“Honey I’m home.” She didn’t reply
LikeLike
“Together?” he said. She only jumped…
LikeLike
Great!
LikeLike
“Dead. But his legacy was born”
LikeLike
👍👍👍
LikeLiked by 1 person
“He had returned. Very much alive.”
LikeLike
Oh I like this!
LikeLike
Love. What’s it good for? Nothing.
LikeLike
Bleak, but possibly true!
LikeLike
Tick. Tock. I’d broken the clock
LikeLike
👍👍👍
LikeLike
Chloe Chapman
No oxygen left; yet I breathed.
LikeLike
Very good!
LikeLike
Chloe Chapman
What if this isn’t over yet?
LikeLike
‘Help me!’ were her last words
LikeLike
Death pays all debts. I’m rich.
LikeLike
I was still. My shadow moved.
LikeLike
He felt his wife’s pulse; nothing.
LikeLike
My reflection smiled creepily, I hadn’t.
LikeLike
I hadn’t intended to kill again
LikeLike
I realised I was dead. Again.
LikeLike
The truth, she said, was classified
LikeLike
In this life, I was free.
LikeLike
I checked, there was no pulse!
LikeLike
“We laughed. We loved. We cried”
LikeLike
They drank to life, then jumped.
LikeLike
She awoke suddenly. In a coffin.
LikeLike
Roses√ Champagne√ Candles√ Ice√ Quicklime√ Shovel√
LikeLike
I woke up; it was gone!
LikeLike
Knowledge is powerful – David Cameron isn’t
LikeLike
Sentences; I always have trouble finishing
LikeLike
“It’s cold!” screamed her muffled cry.
LikeLike
“The water’s cold!”, she shrieked pusillanimously.
LikeLike
“It’s over!” cried the last human.
LikeLike
Life is tough. Living is tougher.
LikeLike
Ding dong. We have no doorbell.
LikeLike
I saw with my blind eyes.
LikeLike
The coffin was empty, he’d disappeared.
LikeLike
I awoke. But was still bleeding.
LikeLike
The kiss burnt blue lips red
LikeLike
Tomorrow never comes…but did today
LikeLike
“For you” he handed me nothing.
LikeLike
‘America, your government has resigned…forever’
LikeLike
I wasn’t dead, just dying inside.
LikeLike
There is no us, only I.
LikeLike
Suspended in space; time flew by. ~Louise Slater ~ Teacher:Mr Shovlin
LikeLike
Bid, outbid, bid, outbid, bid, sale! ~Louise Slater ~Teacher: Mr Shovlin
LikeLike
There is no life like ours. ~Louise Slater ~Teacher:Mr Shovlin
LikeLike