My turn to play: six word stories

[ahedonia]

Other people have blogged about these Six Word Stories, now it's my turn. Mostly because I really really really want my flist to respond with some of their own. (Of course, I probably should have picked a better time to ask than the beginning of a long holiday weekend, but who knows? Maybe at some point you'll be full, bored and tired of pretending to like your relatives, and you'll sit down at the computer as an excuse to ignore them and end up playing along. :P)

Wired recently had this on their website:

“Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words ("For sale: baby shoes, never worn.") and is said to have called it his best work. So we asked sci-fi, fantasy, and horror writers from the realms of books, TV, movies, and games to take a shot themselves.”

Some of my favorites:

Gown removed carelessly. Head, less so.
- Joss Whedon

Computer, did we bring batteries? Computer?
- Eileen Gunn

Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time
- Alan Moore

Longed for him. Got him. Shit.
- Margaret Atwood

“Cellar?” “Gate to, uh … hell, actually.”
- Ronald D. Moore

He read his obituary with confusion.
- Steven Meretzky

Leia: "Baby's yours." Luke: "Bad news…"
- Steven Meretzky

Dorothy: "Fuck it, I'll stay here."
- Steven Meretzky

ETA: Here's one from me:
I meant well. Spaceships crash, right?

Or perhaps:
He's dead. There's one chore down.
- Anne Hedonia

And

I went. Now it's your turn! :P