Three Monkeys Online

A Curious, Alternative Magazine

The Nine-Word Epic

I came across this site via the splinters blog: espressostories. According to the text on the somewhat rebarbatively designed site, it provides stories that follow the “basic rule…that they’re just a sentence or two, totalling 25 words or less.” The project is inspired by Augusto Monterroso’s “famous” story, ‘The Dinosaur'”:When he woke up, the dinosaur was still there.