Short stories

So, in my quest to decide whether I can get away with meaningful shorter posts on my blogs (OK, maybe not a quest: I don't have a sword) I discovered the twitter short story contest: fantastic idea! A story in just the 140 characters you are allowed in a twitter post.

My attempt:
If anyone ever really knew what was going on in other people's heads, they would probably kill themselves. At least I did. But I didn’t consider what happens when you die.

Unfortunately that is 141 words, but I don't want to change it. Hey, my blog, my rules. (Having a word limit is an amazing way to fine-tune prose, though, as anyone who has ever had to write a business school application will tell you.) But the problem with a lot of these entries is that they read like the intro to a story, rather than a full story arc. Does that imply that a good story intro should give you enough to be a full story, or just that these entrants didn't really get it?

(Of course it is now obligatory to reference Hemingway's "Short story in 6 words". So I won't. It's pretty cool though.)