six-word stories

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A trailhead running buddy just sent me this link to a six-word memoir contest sponsored by Smith. That’s right … SIX words. Apparently, when given this assignment, Ernest Heminway wrote:

For sale: baby shoes, never used.

Lord, how does one follow that?

I plan to make this my spring assignment for seejanerun, so if any of you Janes are reading this blog, you get a head start.

Here’s what I sent in (seeing as how I’m in a bonafide mid-life crisis):

So much promise!
Such potential!
yet,

6 Responses to “six-word stories”

  1. sent from a friend who shall remain nameless says:

    “I dance in cage with men.”

    try to guess!

  2. Eric says:

    Hmmm.

    Hard to beat Ernest when sober

    ( . . . and actually, now that I think of it, THAT was six words. . . . But I had in mind the following, one of many Ballads for the Country Doc):

    Not always helpful, always showed up.

  3. I’m the last person. Phone rings…

  4. George (Canada) says:

    Reminds of a joke. Someone calls the Obits at their local paper. I would like to place an Obit. Go ahead. “Joes’ dead”
    “Ma’am, you have six words” “Joes dead, Toyota Camry for Sale”

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