A good story is like a teleport machine, the plot found in its pages can take the reader entirely somewhere new. However, the novel is not the only literary form that owns transportive controls, tweets also have this! That is what the author of The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell, has presented in his short story entitled The Right Sort. It is entirely written by a series of tweets, The Right Sort explains a suspenseful tale about a Nathan, a boy whose life turns into a surrealist nightmare when he was with his mother to a piano recital.
Mashable Reads did a survey and asked the readersto make their own Twitter short stories. The submissions are from sci-fi thrillers to contemplate aside as writers used Twitter to have their own fiction worlds. Here are the top 10:
Freedom: Boundaries are drawn, stipulations made & awkward silence replaces easy conversation. It is a confining thing, freedom. #MashReads
Deep breath of cold air. Hold it. Anticipate. Push off, blades crisp on ice. Find the moment. Shoot. Wait.Hope.Pray. Score. #MashReads
The Atweetporals sat staring at one another while telekinetically tweeting secrets from each others' accounts. #MashReads
As Tessa picked through the rubble she found a picture of the house, drawn by her childhood self. It had survived the blast #MashReads
It stood before us a bold mountain, calling us to courage. So we climbed with grace. #MashReads
Orange, yellow, red, brown. Leaves gently dancing to the ground. Crunch, crackle, lovely sound. Jumping into the giant mound. #MashReads
Youngest of six. Five uniforms returned, neatly folded. Now, an only child. #MashReads
Tell me again of Paris he said.... An arrow of memories flew through the space of time. Tell me again of Paris he said.... #MashReads
Death eclipsed life momentarily.You appear. Silent euphoria. Electric presence. Reality obscured. I watch intently. Breeze. Gone. #MashReads
As sorrow weighs him down like concrete around a drowning man's feet, he realises immortality is a lonely man's game. #MashReads
