Short Story Lorem Ipsum Generator 📓

The Short Story Lorem Ipsum Generator (which will be referred to as SSLIG for brevity's sake) will create lorem ipsum content from portions of text from famous, public-domain short stories--short, delicious works like the approximately thirteen-hundred word short story by Saki (H. H. Munro) The Open Window to more lengthy works like the glorious science fiction novella of approximately thirty-thousand words The Time Machine by H. G. Wells.

What I have done is this: I have created a database where individual text portions from over a hundred different short stories are stored in a database. These text portions, which we shall call 'morsels' from here on out. These morsels may or may not be individual paragraphs. Usually they are just a single paragraph. Sometimes they are several smaller paragraphs taken as a single morsel. This is often the case with dialog-type morsels (those that contain humans having a discussion with the customary double and single quote marks) as they tend to be short and in order to make things more interesting when reading through the accumulated story morsels, will oftentimes make more sense and be more readable if I do not separate these too much. For instance, a dialog paragraph that is a question may be most readable if the answer dialog paragraph follows the question dialog paragraph.

The point here was to make the randomized content to seem, and mostly read, without the obvious duplicity of ordinary lorem ipsum content. This is not a slam on other lorem ipsum content. Most are very clever and interesting. I just like my lorem ipsum to look more authentic--like it is real content.

The SSLIG draws content from 5028 morsels, from 117 famous, public-domain short works of literature, written by 40 of the world's most notable authors. Some are short morsels and some can be rather long.

The SSLIG Design Configuration

The SSLIG is laid out in three columns. The first column is where the user can choose the number of morsels to generate in the middle column. The user can choose to generate from a single morsel to as many as twenty. When the SSLIG opens, it will show five morsels based on the criteria in the options area listed just below. Here, the user can choose the size of the morsels (small, medium and large morsels), and whether they can contain dialog (like what one would see in a fictional novel) or whether they contain jargon ("Now why'n tarnation wud ya do dat to ma langage?").

This generator will also, for those who select four or more morsels, pick a good starting morsel and a good ending morsel rather than just choose from random-story morsels. What this means is that the group of morsels you have chosen in your four or more morsel group will have an appropriate starting morsel and an appropriate ending morsel, thus the entirety of the chosen morsels will be even more readable.

Again, the point here was to make the randomized content to seem, and mostly read, without the obvious duplicity 😉 of ordinary lorem ipsum content.

As mentioned above, the middle column is where the lorem ipsum content is generated. When there are morsels shown in the middle column, unless you are only generating one, you should be able to see that each grouping is in an alternating shade of grey so you can see where a morsel starts and another begins. You will also be able to hover on a morsel to see what morsel number it is, the name of the story it comes from and the author's name and other author information, if we have any.

The third and final column shows a listing of the stories where each morsel comes from and a link to Classic Short Stories (another web site we created) where you can read the story in its entirety.

The Short Story Lorem Ipsum Generator Story {yawn}.

I promise to be brief. I created this lorem ipsum tool because I needed it. Back in 1995 I created Classic Short Stories because I love reading and short stories are by far my favorite. Novels can drone on forever, but short stories are pithy and to the point. So, I had this resource where I could get my content. Why did I need this tool? I write a lot of computer code and lorem ipsum is often used by coders to add sample content to an html page, or to a database in order to quickly facilitate design work. So, I threw together the SSLIG to help me with my code work.

And, now, since it is getting a bit more popular, I thought a facelift and a bit more content here might be in order.

Would You Like to Play a Game?

Since these morsels when slapped together in this fashion can make for some humorous stories, you might find some fun in reading aloud to others. See if your friends can tell when a storyline ends and a new story begins.

Another game you might have with your learned friends is this: you could read your mocked-up story and listeners are playing to steal the game lead from you by guessing the story title and author's name for the morsel being read. If someone guesses it correctly, they get to choose a mock up and read theirs to the group.

Or, read one of these to guests to see if anyone can catch the sometimes not-so-obvious change in storyline.

I hope you enjoy this tool as much as I do. It really is the best lorem ipsum generator available if you are looking for content that could actually fool you into thinking it is real content.