With apologies to Hemingway, I propose a new thingus: The Shortest Tragedy.

I'm sure you can come up with better examples, but I just got into a Gmail chat slapfight with Mr. Tipcat and here's my proposal:

Missus Hasselhoff.

Go.

Happy Meal Toy for show and tell.

Masturbation as an exercise in completion.

we came. we saw. we cried. we came.

your hero loses, dies.

drowning person lives by drowning lifeguard instead.

garble wrote:drowning person lives by drowning lifeguard instead.

that sounds more like a short comedy.

That Damned Fly.

Oh no she di'in't!

burun wrote:That Damned Fly.

Oh no she di'in't!

i'm more of a dark comedy.

Shortest dark comedy?
She made me cry actual tears with that post, I think I scared my dog.