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A living view of the stories, writers and recorded reader judgments shaping Six Word Story.
Live · updated 18:49:19 UTCREADER ACTIVITY
New votes over 14 days
Every bar is a day of recorded reader activity. Editorial starting profiles are excluded from this chart and every audience-analysis figure on this page.
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COLLECTION PULSE
What readers judge
Observed reader activity and approval across each browsing collection. Search separates literary form, genre and tone more precisely.
AT A GLANCE
What the numbers say
of all recorded judgments are positive.
votes for each published story on average.
1,406 judgments cast here.
STORY DATA CURIOSITIES
What thousands of tiny choices reveal
Calculated from the published collection and refreshed with the live totals above.
126 stories begin here.
28 stories finish here.
79% positive across 2,247 judgments.
50% positive across 20 judgments.
34 reader judgments.
Leading story in each form
“Dreaming of war, of dirt, lilies.”
by Alexandra Netbai · 34 judgments
Read and judge →“Seeing. Falling. Loving. Breaking. Hating. Killing.”
by Noemi · 8 judgments
Read and judge →“Still remember when Dad last smiled.”
by Doug Weller · 5 judgments
Read and judge →“Morning returned. Somehow, so did hope.”
by Aster Day · 3 judgments
Read and judge →STRANGE THINGS SIX WORDS REVEAL
Which big idea appears more often?
These are whole-word counts from the published collection, paired with genuine reader approval.
Read the full language reportExplore openings, endings, distinctive form vocabulary, unexpected pairings and reader reactions.
Read the report →“Leaf fall on dog head. Confused.”
by Francesca Astraea
191
Judge it yourself →Readers do the sorting.
Top rewards sustained approval. Rising finds fresh momentum. Most Divisive finds stories with a meaningful, near-even split between love and rejection.
See how rankings work →“Dreaming of war, of dirt, lilies.”
by Alexandra Netbai · Dark
Read and judge →“Nobody came. He finally stopped inviting.”
by Jo · Heartbreak
Be among its first judges →LIVE RANKINGS
Stories readers are shaping
These compact lists are rendered with the page, then refreshed by the same live data used in the charts. Top reflects positive score, Most Voted reflects total judgments, and Most Divisive reflects a meaningful near-even split.
Top stories
“Dreaming of war, of dirt, lilies.”
by Alexandra Netbai · 34 votes“Leaf fall on dog head. Confused.”
by Francesca Astraea · 20 votes“Everything takes time. Time takes everything.”
by AdammabA · 18 votes“My therapist laughed. Progress, apparently, continues.”
by Honestly Tired · 19 votes“We shared headphones. Then whole lives.”
by Tess Linden · 13 votes“She planted flowers where fear lived.”
by Six Word Story Editors · 13 votes
Most Voted
“Dreaming of war, of dirt, lilies.”
by Alexandra Netbai · 34 votes“Leaf fall on dog head. Confused.”
by Francesca Astraea · 20 votes“My therapist laughed. Progress, apparently, continues.”
by Honestly Tired · 19 votes“Everything takes time. Time takes everything.”
by AdammabA · 18 votes“We shared headphones. Then whole lives.”
by Tess Linden · 13 votes“I’m so happy! So happy! Splat.”
by KJ Cutler · 13 votes
Most Divisive
“Leaf fall on dog head. Confused.”
by Francesca Astraea · 20 votes“My therapist laughed. Progress, apparently, continues.”
by Honestly Tired · 19 votes“Everything takes time. Time takes everything.”
by AdammabA · 18 votes“I’m so happy! So happy! Splat.”
by KJ Cutler · 13 votes“We shared headphones. Then whole lives.”
by Tess Linden · 13 votes“She planted flowers where fear lived.”
by Six Word Story Editors · 13 votes
Numbers are not editorial tasteRankings show reader response. Six We Love highlights pieces selected for precision, originality and lasting effect.
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