It's an old exercise. The legend is that Hemingway posed it as "write a story in six words" and then responded with "For sale: baby shoes, never worn."

The Smiths Magazine has been running a lot of contests around the idea recently, asking more for memoirs instead of stories.

Just thought I'd put it out there and see if anyone had a good one. I've got a decent one, but it's pretty emo. I'm going to try and come up with something else.

The Code is Almighty wrote:It's an old exercise. The legend is that Hemingway posed it as "write a story in six words" and then responded with "For sale: baby shoes, never worn."

ah, that was the thing. i wondered about that in the shortest tragedy thing.

anyways...six word memoir.

i never knew, i never cared.

This has been done, kerble yourself.

"He lied and I moved on."

i came, i saw, i faltered

Mandroid2.0 wrote:"He lied and I moved on."

Oh Ben, what have you done?

Josef K wrote:

Mandroid2.0 wrote:"He lied and I moved on."

Oh Ben, what have you done?

That's not Ben. Ben's is -

"He shagged, then he moved in"

"What was I going to say?"

Frank Decent wrote:"What was I going to say?"

Ha!

I was about to write:

"Now, what was I looking for?"