I'm just finishing Felix Feneon's Novels in Three Lines.
Feneon is a fascinating person. These are are a series of short news blurbs, pretty much the only thing that survives him, written for a newspaper in 1906 France. Wonderful introduction by Luc Sante.
Example of one:
On the bowling lawn a stroke leveled M. Andre, 75, of Levallois. While his ball was still rolling he was no more.