Tell Your Story in Six Words

Ernest Hemmingway was once asked to tell a story in six words. Almost immediately, he returned with "For sale: baby shoes, never worn."

Could you write a story with six words? Tell your life story in six words? For more information or to submit an official six word memoir, visit Six-Word Memoirs at SMITH Magazine. If you are not submitting to the site, please leave your six-word stories in a comment.

Here are a few of mine to get you started:

Raised in the 1960s. Still kicking.

Celebrate, laugh, live long and prosper.

Drinking and driving too fast. Buried today.

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