It’s out there. I read it in a newspaper nearly 20 years ago. Every word without exception begins with ‘s’. It’s several hundred words long. Can anyone post a copy?
Sorry.
“Sorry” seems somewhat supercilious.
Such stories seem stupid. Society should suppress such sad silliness.
I was able to find this site, which may assist in your search.
**One ** Wednesday Wally was walking whilst whistling (without worries), when, without warning…
What?
Suffering succotash seems sorta silly. Some scripter spent some season structuring simple S speech sentences.
I did it using m in english for a short short story. The teacher said something like “How nice, and don’t do it again.”
Example: Miny mouse munched my marshmallows. I have no idea what it was anymore, bit I did use marshmallows in it.
It is unusual but not that difficult to construct an occasional paragraph or story (fiction or nonfiction) that has a similar distinguishing quality.
Most of us (if not all) could accomplish similar tasks don’t you think?
Is it actually that tough to do ?
I reckon ‘s’ is the only letter that would give you a chance to write something grammatical and that makes sense in English, that is about 600 words long.
It’s an intellectual exercise of an excess of idleness over ability, as if every item in an article initiaties in a… vowel.
For some reason, I thought the thread title said ‘x’ when I clicked on it, which I suspect would be pretty much impossible.
In my last posting, I was not trying to diminish “Sam’s Short Story”.
No. It was just my sly way of introducing my own bit of word play.
In as much as a link was found for “Sam’s Short Story” I thought this hijack was okay - (particularly with similar postings showing up).
So, why is this posting (and my last) so unusual?
For an honorable mention, may I note…The Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den?
Well Fables for the Cybernetic Age by Stanisaw Lem has a lovely poem with this characteristic.
I seem to recall the first line as something like:
Silently snoring Samson slept
Soon savagely shorn
sightlessly seeking some spectacular suicide.
By way of variety, may I offer this:
The Siege of Belgrade (Title I originally heard)
I was going to post that, but I thought the Lem thing was more directed towards the OP. Great poem.
In the English translation of Stanislaw Lem’s The Cyberiad, a computer is created that is designed to be the best writer ever, and is asked (as an intended stumper) to come up with a poem “…about a haircut! But lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet heroism and in the face of certain doom! Six lines, cleverly rhymed, and every word beginning with the letter s!!”.
Even before its creator can finish protesting that this is an absurd request, it produces:
I’ve always wondered what the poem/problem was in the original Polish!