the Beijinger's Six-Word Writing Competition: All the Entries – Part 10

Jonathan White | Mar 23, 2012 8:00 pm | Add a comment | 2835 reads

The competition may be over but the Beijinger's Six-Word Writing Competition keeps on giving. It's time to share every single entry that we received. Thanks to everyone who contributed. Your efforts are appreciated. As for all of you who didn't enter the contest: Get ready to enjoy the fruits of their labors. Without further ado ...

OK, a small bit of further ado. All of these entries are listed verbatim as they came to us in the original emails. They have not been intentionally edited. The copy editor in us wanted to write "[sic]" all over them but this caveat can serve the same purpose.

  1. City of contradictions, made for explorers.
  2. You made me love. And cry.
  3. City of hopes and dreams. Haha.
  4. As I stayed, I knew it.
  5. Too late to go. But still...
  6. A rumbling grave, beautifully kept alive.
  7. Lost my heart, but... to you?
  8. Beijing, you old, farting, gracious cougar.
  9. Love or something, you mind-blowing bitch.
  10. To remember. To forget. To envy.
  11. Like a vampire, but more gracious.
  12. You can do better, jia you!
  13. Done this. Been there. And stayed.
  14. So many people, and no souls.
  15. Looks like one of these days.
  16. Like Confucios said: keep on smiling.
  17. Reading this, maybe I should move.
  18. Better stop now. Thanks for reading.
  19. Cheers. And sorry about the swearing.
  20. And still: thank you, my Beijing.
  21. "[Unusually short descriptive sentence]": fills space.
  22. Coffee, cigarettes and too-soon forgotten dreams.
  23. It took her to know him.
  24. Just another imagined teenage love delusion.
  25. Parallel worlds collide inside imagination-coloured possibilities.
  26. "That's not chicken - it has tentacles."
  27. "Your ballet fingers will scare people."
  28. Birth. School. Marriage. Baijiu. Death. Tribute.
  29. Taxi. Tanked. Nationalism. Laowais. Ignorance. Stampede.
  30. Ai Ya! Am I late again?
  31. Hey, please stop pushing me, alright?
  32. Like taking a bus at 1AM.
  33. 2 days of Blue Skies, Yay!

Think you can do better? Go and leave your six words on the collage at The Bookworm.

Photo: SensesOfCinema