Here are a few 6-Word Stories from Roy H. Williams' Monday Morning Memo.
"For sale:
baby shoes,
never worn."
– a famous 6-word story commonly attributed to Ernest Hemingway but it’s not likely he really wrote it.
"With bloody hands, I say good-bye.”
– a 6-word story by Frank Miller
"Longed for him. Got him. Shit."
– a 6-word story by Margaret Atwood
"machine. Unexpectedly, I'd invented a time"
– a 6-word story by Alan Moore
"Tick-tock tick-tock tick-tick."
– a 6-word story by Neal Stephenson
Anybody what to take a shot at writing a 6 Word Story or add a 6 Word Story you've heard?
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Posted by: Mike | July 28, 2008 at 07:48 AM
I posted on this back in Feb...
http://www.perigrinatio.com/2008/02/12/six-words/
my six word memoir...
"I fell apart; God is mending."
Posted by: Doug Jones | July 28, 2008 at 10:13 AM
Hey Doug,
I read your post, great stuff. I particularly like your prayer, "As He is, may I be."
I might change that to "As Christ is, may I be."
Peace to you.
Mike
Posted by: Mike | July 29, 2008 at 10:07 AM
Embraced my cross to follow Jesus.
Posted by: Mike | July 29, 2008 at 10:09 AM