the Beijinger's Six-Word Writing Competition: All the Entries – Part 7

Jonathan White | Mar 20, 2012 6:00 pm | Add a comment | 1365 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. Many chuanrs later, I'm still here.
  2. DUSTY DRY BUSY BUY SELDOM SIGH
  3. Phlegmatic hawker of freedom to choose.
  4. Northern face braved in pickling Erguotou.
  5. Northern face saved in pickling Erguotou.
  6. Reptile skins shed leaving winter confined.
  7. Laboratory rites of passage. A lavatory.
  8. Lavatory rites of passage. A laboratory.
  9. Lost in a Hutong. Found Beijing.
  10. Lost in a Hutong's cultural maze.
  11. No dust settled on that character.
  12. Intimate and Expansive Humble and Imperial Bicycle and Audi
  13. Magnificent chuànr, made mightier by mantou
  14. Back here without my Italian chicken
  15. One year: same places, different people
  16. Beijing, China, in my soul forever
  17. Moved to Beijing, my path altered
  18. Phlegmatic-dogmatic Wonderland: Quixotic adventures for sale.
  19. Just like coughing up bunnies, Andree
  20. While everyone else slept, we sang.
  21. A melting-pot of rush and wisdom.
  22. Everyone here looks like anime characters
  23. Every guy at Tsinghua wears glasses
  24. Got into taxi, ripped my jeans
  25. Fat officials love rubbing their bellies
  26. Won eating contest, ate chuan
  27. Teach English. All I ever do
  28. Mules pulling wagons. No big deal
  29. I’m sorry, I don’t speak Chinese
  30. Sewage oil makes for scrumptious meals

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

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