Six word memoirs

Supposedly, the great Ernest Hemingway once composed a complete story in six words: “For sale: baby shoes, never used.”

Wow.

Six word stories have been the rage lately, showing up all over the Internet and inducing creative excitement locally by describing photos.

Now I hear the six word memoir is hot (see NPR’s story on a new book titled Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs By Famous and Obscure Writers).

Here’s my six word memoir:

Writer, not as funny in person.

Here’s zen’s:

I came. I saw. I photographed.

What’s yours?

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5 Responses

  1. etbnc |

    Hmmm… well, here’s one draft:

    Believed that, too. Then grew up.

  2. zen |

    s/he’s still working on the draft!

  3. Gordon Smith |

    Six word memoir:

    Can’t take suburbia out of the boy.

    OR

    Poignant, finding meaning and nothingness both.

  4. catnap |

    six word memoir for my daughter.
    It focuses on one incident because she has yet to do much,

    “One leap, small girl, broken toilet.”

    Maybe it is a metaphor for something deep.

  5. tim |

    Telegram: Help! GOP In Charge STOP

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