this post was submitted on 21 Oct 2025
502 points (97.2% liked)

Comic Strips

20732 readers
3352 users here now

Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

The rules are simple:

Web of links

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I feel like that's a question, and not a story. A six word story could be more like: "Gun-handed Dracula shot Van Helsing dead" or, if you count hyphenated words as two words, you could do: "Gun-handed Dracula shot Van Helsing"

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] egrets@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That got dark quickly. I'm sincerely impressed. Good job.

[–] egrets@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just a paraphrase of Poe, no credit due to me!

[–] rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] egrets@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, Jeremiah is what Poe was referencing in terms of his narrator character's desperation to recover from the heartache of his own loss, but it was The Raven that I had in mind, not the prophet in Babylon.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

A misatribution of Hemingway leading all the way back to Babylon is one hell of a rabbit hole. I love the Fediverse for this.