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I get it :-) very clever!

I think I may need to think about it a bit more before I give a contribution...

I think it is/was/will be a little better like this:

Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a Time

Love that one. :)

Now I get it. Shouldn't machine not be capitalized?

ironically, we don't need words anymore.

Dang, now that I looked at it again I got it :)

"Remember when weeks had seven days?"

This is not a dream, right?

or...

This is all a dream, right?

depending on your perspective... ;-)

Machine should be capitalized because "Time" is capitalized...

Rocket was sprocketless; eyeball became socketless.

shutdown – unknown command
disabled user input

Time, unlimited. Space, unbounded. Explore. Enjoy.

Tentacles, insanity, shoggoths. Don't break space.

And of course, just for the sake of completeness.. the shortest possible piece of speculative fiction.

?!

Robot shoes for sale, never used.

Gay robot loved another gay robot.

"The lines blurred. Life evolved."

In my day, one meant one.

"Tomorrow, it will be today again."

"Our mating produced a hideous creature."

"Sorry Dave, I can't do that"

"Aliens came in peace. We didn't."

"Sun got old. Earth burned up."

"Martians will use sun as nuclear bomb"

"Let me download your mind, baby"

"Let's go for a holiday on earth"

"Oh my god! You never told that the time machine has no back gear"

Humanity turned into batteries? Wake up!

They're inside me.... aaaaargh!

"Six words were, unfortunately, too much."

"...can read this, it's already too..."

"Don't! If I die, we all -"

"They built me. I am. I!"

"In four words, I'll be gone."

Inspired by the OJ Simpson trial:

Glove doesn't fit: you must acquit!

I experienced my birth yet again.

My grandfather said to me 'Dad..'

Previous three lettered mammailian lifeform? RAT.

I will see you back then.

DNA suddenly untangled lost the helix

the fifth base of DNA

... I lost a word "lost the fifth base of DNA" ;) and "DNA suddenly untagled, lost the helix" should have a comma...

House for Sale in my SecondLife – You are still connected!

> "Martians will use sun as nuclear bomb"
>
> "Let's go for a holiday on earth"

Beeeep... this is seven words! :)

"Old teleportation lesions", she explained, discomfited.

In spanish, an author called Augusto Monterroso is credited for writing the world's shortest story:

>Cuando despertó, el dinosaurio todavía estaba allí.
>("When he awoke, the dinosaur was still there.")

I, however... wrote the smallest romantic play...

Descartes: Cogito ergo sum.
Helene: Stop. Don't think. Kiss me.
*POOF*
Helene: Rene?

10000 years ago, it surprised many.

What is isn't. What isn't is.

The universe expanded forever, almost...then...

"Perfect!", said Sergey Jr. "Now what?"

"So we lost everything. Yeah. Orkut."

[cheap flights Boise Idaho Valles Marineris]

> "Perfect!", said Sergey Jr. "Now what?"

Ah, I like that one!

> "So we lost everything. Yeah. Orkut."

Whereas I don't get this one :)

Name's Bond. James Bond, read epitaph.

Bombs stolen. Underwater mayhem. Miami safe. (Plot of Thunderball)

Mr President? European Premier Stalin calling.

My favourite SF stories are those which don't spell out the premise, or the payoff, leaving the reader to ponder, or better yet to imagine. But ...

I imagined Larry and Sergey drowning their sorrows in a bar, boring the polite but sceptical bartender with stories of the rise and fall of their empire. "So where did it all go wrong?", he asked, humouring them.

Larry looked at Sergey, the pain still etched on his face as he thought about the snowballing legal and publicity troubles surrounding Orkut. "We should have realised from the Brazilian experience", he said morosely "but Eric was sure we could handle it, and was so keen to reach the same penetration in every market. And sure, at first the ad income was astounding, even by Google's standards. But then the copyright and kiddie p0rn lawsuits flooded in, buoyed up by the early huge triple-damages judgements. Advertisers began pulling out, and eventually the very name 'Google' was synonymous with everything considered unacceptable about the Net. Shareholders panicked, and employees jumped ship to where they could wear company t-shirts proudly in public."

"All because of Orkut? Wasn't that just some kind of chat site for teenagers?", asked the bartender, somewhat interested (though not enough to ask who Eric might be). "So what happened in the end?"

"So we lost everything. Yeah. Orkut", said Sergey dryly, still barely able to believe his own words.

Another burning bush? We smash atoms!

"iPod? ... wires? ... dangling from their ears!?"

Most survivors preferred the new climate.

The last sperm swam, hopelessly lost ...

Some Google ones, to finish:-

"Profits soared, once we swapped columns."

Little Chinese censorship, Google History records.

"Contains 40% Google" ©2056 Google Blogoscoped.

Google Calculator announces: pi now 3.

Night flight to Pluto was delayed.

"Can't contact Pioneer. Their Google's down."

Her penis couldn't resist his vagina.

Stoning temporarily halted. WWIV resumes tomorrow.

Man's epitaph: Didn't read the manual

God switched Earth off. Then Himself.

Last man died today. Women exulted.

Duck traversed space. Nobody asked why.

I'm dead. Ergo, life can't be.

Awoke in vat. Screamed. Nobody heard.

   Curiosity killed mankind.Don't ask how.