In a word

Is it possible to tell a story in six words? I think you can convey an idea but I’m not sure about the telling a story. If you type “six word story” into a search bar, you will get many results including http://www.sixwordstories.net where there are numerous six word stories. I guess in a world where we have phone text messages as a way of conveying information, it’s feasible to think that people are used to truncating their communications ... and that six words could convey a lot. I remember reading a joke once about a woman and her sisters who ran a farm and she went off to see if she could buy a bull. She did managed to find one and it took just about all of the money she had to be able to secure it. It was the “old days” so ... she went to the Post Office to send them a telegram to let them know she had the bull and that they would need to come and collect her and it. She had enough money for only one word in the telegram so she sent: comfortable. And they did.