Great challenge entry. It sums up so much about the sadness of this narrator’s life, and even has a hint of mystery since it could be taken as a post-mortem lament.

:) Thanks!

Wow. Saying so much in so few words.

this has a lotttt of backgroud with so few words!

Brilliantly crafted. Twenty Five characters have rarely said so much.

Two can be as bad as one. It’s the loneliest number since the number one.

I love it.

Wow. It says so much in only those 6 words. Excellent job!

Congratulations!
Picking a winner out of all the great entries was not easy, but you won for three reasons.

One: Despite the clever title, it neither added nor took from the overall content. It was my own fault for not being specific enough in the rules, but I tried to ignore the titles as the entire idea should be encapsulated in the six words. As they were in yours.

Two: The gut emotional reaction that the story evoked was real and intense.

Three: The number of possibilities and ideas evoked. You have depression, a sense of mortality, a concern/contempt about the feelings of others, and a sense of ego.

Excellent work.

Jape S. Prophet

Woohoo! I’m honored! Thanks guys for taking the time to read my story.

This is great. Really, really great. One of those “sitting at my desk, drinking my coffee, checking out ficly, and then suddenly stopping to re-read it a few times because it’s all, ‘wow, that’s the perfect entry for this challenge’” and whatnot.

It’s difficult to think of a way to make six words more meaningful.