The Japanese Haiku has a challenger
CopyBlogger issued a challenge to the world. Write a piece of literature which is exactly 140 character, 
not more not less. Why 140? Because this was a Twitter Writing contest. And a lot of people took the challenge. Winners got iPods and a whole lot more. The winning entries are below:
First Place:
“Time travel works!” the note read. “However you can only travel to the past and one-way.” I recognized my own handwriting and felt a chill.
Second Place:
Tony was a snitch, so I wasn’t surprised when his torso turned up in the river. What did surprise me, though, was where they found his head.
Third Place:
When Gibson hit that homerun in the fall of eighty-eight, my old man had never been so happy. He hugged me for the first time. I was eleven.
Visit the results page to see details on who the winners were as well as the prizes they got.
And if you have the appetite for this sort of a thing, visit Smithereens to see a compilation of all submissions (331 of them – you will need to scroll to the bottom of this post to get a look at them).