Telling short tales

The current issue of Wired has a piece inspired by Ernest Hemingway, who wrote a six-word short story ("For sale: baby shoes, never worn."--very poignant) and supposedly said it was his best work ever. Wired asked a bunch of writers in speculative fiction (fantasy, sf, horror) to pen their own contributions.

My favorites:

• Failed SAT. Lost scholarship. Invented rocket. -- William Shatner (Shatner is cool)
• Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time -- Alan Moore (clever!)
• Lie detector eyeglasses perfected: Civilization collapses. -- Richard Powers
• Epitaph: He shouldn't have fed it. -- Brian Herbert
• Bush told the truth. Hell froze. -- William Gibson
• Leia: "Baby's yours." Luke: "Bad news…" -- Steven Meretzky
• Dorothy: "Fuck it, I'll stay here." -- Steven Meretzky

My contribution: "Didn't ask Martin, Pullman, and Fforde?" (I'm curious to know what George R. R. Martin, Philip Pullman, and Jasper Fforde would've written.)