Wm. Mark Simmons
Nothing original.
Here's a golden oldie from 1948:
"The last man on earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door."
It's a short-short story by Frederick Brown who then goes on to use it as the first two sentences of a short story entitled "Knock." The two sentences are actually boiled down from an extended three-sentence concept by Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
There was actually an anthology of stories generated by this two-sentence masterpiece--I believe it was back in 1982 under the title of...The Last Man on Earth. SF and Horror writers were given these two sentences as a springboard to complete the story and the results were quite compelling. However, the original still remains the best.
If you think about it.
The other two-sentence story that I know is not a horror story but a poem by Strickland Gillilam, entitled: "Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes" and goes:
Adam
Had 'em.
Here's a golden oldie from 1948:
"The last man on earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door."
It's a short-short story by Frederick Brown who then goes on to use it as the first two sentences of a short story entitled "Knock." The two sentences are actually boiled down from an extended three-sentence concept by Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
There was actually an anthology of stories generated by this two-sentence masterpiece--I believe it was back in 1982 under the title of...The Last Man on Earth. SF and Horror writers were given these two sentences as a springboard to complete the story and the results were quite compelling. However, the original still remains the best.
If you think about it.
The other two-sentence story that I know is not a horror story but a poem by Strickland Gillilam, entitled: "Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes" and goes:
Adam
Had 'em.
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