I'm not sure you could use this in a school setting but I loved One Sentence, which is simply a collection of one sentence mini-stories. Naturally, much of the story you have to extrapolate, which is one of its appeals. The idea is to write one sentence that captures the reader's attention. I can see using this in a high school segment on writing. Students could read the One Sentences, do some ranking, and find longest/shortest. I think it would really motivate students to talk specifically and deeply about what in that One Sentence appealed to them.
Their "About" page also has a list of links to other sites that are exercises in writing briefly.
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