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A living view of the stories, writers and recorded reader judgments shaping Six Word Story.
Live · updated 20:27:57 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.
23Oct 15
82Oct 16
51Oct 17
38Oct 18
454Oct 19
98Oct 20
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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.
2,584 judgments cast here.
STORY DATA CURIOSITIES
What thousands of tiny choices reveal
Calculated from the published collection and refreshed with the live totals above.
138 stories begin here.
31 stories finish here.
74% positive across 168 judgments.
55% positive across 150 judgments.
96 reader judgments.
Leading story in each form
“Everything takes time. Time takes everything.”
by AdammabA · 96 judgments
Read and judge →“Stuck between two places, neither home.”
by Anon. · 17 judgments
Read and judge →“He proposed. Siri answered before me.”
by Lucy Maybe · 14 judgments
Read and judge →“Death:uninvited guest in life party”
by Laiba · 9 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 →“Everything takes time. Time takes everything.”
by AdammabA
7917
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 →“Me go house. See ghost. run”
by Anon. · Literary
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
“Everything takes time. Time takes everything.”
by AdammabA · 96 votes“Dreaming of war, of dirt, lilies.”
by Alexandra Netbai · 41 votes“You took everything except my apology.”
by sourpatchkittenxx · 52 votes“He buried evidence. Garden bloomed red.”
by Six Word Story Editors · 46 votes“My emotional support dog needs therapy”
by AJ Walker · 30 votes“The baby monitor whispered my name.”
by Six Word Story Editors · 30 votes
Most Voted
“Everything takes time. Time takes everything.”
by AdammabA · 96 votes“You took everything except my apology.”
by sourpatchkittenxx · 52 votes“He buried evidence. Garden bloomed red.”
by Six Word Story Editors · 46 votes“Dreaming of war, of dirt, lilies.”
by Alexandra Netbai · 41 votes“Introduced myself to mother again today.”
by warsy26 · 35 votes“My therapist laughed. Progress, apparently, continues.”
by Honestly Tired · 33 votes
Most Divisive
“Everything takes time. Time takes everything.”
by AdammabA · 96 votes“You took everything except my apology.”
by sourpatchkittenxx · 52 votes“He buried evidence. Garden bloomed red.”
by Six Word Story Editors · 46 votes“Dreaming of war, of dirt, lilies.”
by Alexandra Netbai · 41 votes“Introduced myself to mother again today.”
by warsy26 · 35 votes“My therapist laughed. Progress, apparently, continues.”
by Honestly Tired · 33 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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