About Six Word Story
Six Word Story is an independent reader-ranked home for complete ideas told in exactly six words. Read them, rate them, share your favourites, then discover that writing six good words is much harder than judging them.
Published and editorially reviewed 29 July 2026
What is a six-word story?
It is a complete creative work told in exactly six words. It can suggest a character, create a world, land a joke, capture a memory or deliver a twist before the reader has time to escape.
One form. Plenty of possibilities.
Stories sit alongside six-word poetry, memoirs, jokes, horror, romance, science fiction and wordplay. The form stays fixed. What you do with it is entirely your problem.
How the site works
Writers submit original six-word work and choose a genre. Readers vote stories up or down, helping the strongest rise through the rankings. New work gets its moment; popular work earns unreasonable levels of glory.
How stories are selected
Community voting helps surface stories that connect with readers. Curated collections add a second layer of editorial judgment, so unusual popularity does not become the only definition of quality. Submissions may be corrected, declined or removed when they are unclear, unoriginal or outside the site rules. Read our editorial standards and ranking methodology.
What the site is trying to do
Six Word Story is part reading experience, part writing workshop and part living archive. Our mission is to build the world's most comprehensive collection of six-word stories, poems, memoirs and jokes, collectively known as Six Word Wonders, while helping more people discover, understand and create remarkable writing in very small packages.
The Six Word Wonder connection
Six Word Story is a Six Word Wonder community, linked to the established books and annual contest but run as its own destination. The community rankings here are separate from contest judging, and submitting here never enters a story into the contest.
Community site or contest?
This community and the independently hosted annual contest are separate. Posting here does not enter a story into the contest. Contest entries are submitted through the official contest page and follow its own eligibility and publication rules.
Six words. No room for waffle.