How many words does it take to tell a story? There's a legend that Ernest Hemingway won a bet by writing a story six words in length. The San Luis Obispo New Times has an annual short fiction contest, 55Fiction, in which each story has at most 55 words, and, in addition, at most 7 more words for a title. There are a number of other opportunities to publish and read very short fiction, each with its own particular constraints, usually much more than...