How about 'Silent Scream'? It's really creepy. You can picture someone trying to scream but no sound coming out, perhaps because of some supernatural force suppressing it or they're in such a state of extreme fear that they've lost their voice.
Another example could be 'Empty House'. It gives a sense of desolation and the unknown. You start to wonder what might be lurking in that empty space. There's a feeling of unease that comes with it, like something bad has happened there or might happen if you enter.
Sure. 'Final Breath' is one. It makes you think of someone taking their last gasp, which is quite terrifying in just two words.
Another could be 'Cake, teeth, scream'. The idea is that something normal like a cake suddenly becomes terrifying when you think of teeth and a scream perhaps related to something hidden in the cake.
Well, here are some. 'I woke up to find a handprint on my window. It was on the inside.' And also 'My sister said she saw mom in the attic. Mom has been dead for years.
Sure. For the meaning of a fictional book, 'The Great Gatsby' is a well - known novel. For the meaning of new or original, a novel way of marketing a product could be using virtual reality to let customers experience it before buying.
Sentence 1: I woke up in the middle of the night to a strange scratching at my window. Sentence 2: When I looked out, my own face stared back at me, grinning.
As I said before, Ernest Hemingway's 'For sale: baby shoes, never worn' is a key origin example. It showed how much emotion and story could be packed into just six words.
A two - story shed could be like a large agricultural shed. The ground floor might be used to store farming equipment like tractors and plows, while the upper floor could be for storing hay or smaller tools.
Fable. Fables are short stories that often have a moral lesson. Aesop's Fables are very famous examples where animals are used as characters to convey wisdom.
I don't have the content of the 'day 168 word story', so I'm unable to provide examples. However, if it's a general short story, it could start with something like 'The sun was setting over the small town, casting a golden glow on the rooftops.' and then continue to develop the plot within the 168 words.
Another one could be 'Strangers. Friends. Best friends. Lovers.' It's a very concise way to show the development of a relationship in just six words. This kind of short - form storytelling forces the writer to be extremely creative and convey a lot of meaning in very few words.