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<p>these are great!!! I must write one, hmmm…what next?</p>
<p>Those are great; thanks for sharing!</p>
<p>Mine: Glass half-full but mostly lemonade</p>
<p>Those really are great. Gets you thinking?</p>
<p>How many of us want to get to know Mark from South Africa?</p>
<p>The empty-nester’s lament:</p>
<p>Two kids, grew up, moved out.</p>
<p>instant noodles and another night alone.</p>
<p>JMMom: which version of Mark from South Africa? The bitter bleak one or the funny one?</p>
<p>Birthed…raised…loved… waiting for call.</p>
<p>[Six-Word</a> Memoirs at SMITH Magazine](<a href=“http://www.smithmag.net/sixwords/archive.php]Six-Word”>http://www.smithmag.net/sixwords/archive.php)</p>
<p>be warned, reading them is adictive</p>
<p>Beer plus football always equals good</p>
<p>On a related note, Hemingway wrote a famous response to a challenge to write a six-word story:
“For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” </p>
<p>Here are some other six-word stories, many by well-known authors or others.
[Wired</a> 14.11: Very Short Stories](<a href=“http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/sixwords.html]Wired”>Very Short Stories | WIRED)</p>
<p>I found this one touching:
From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.
- Gregory Maguire</p>
<p>(Referring to the lost firefighters from 9-11, I think.)</p>
<p>The magazine got the idea from the hemingway story…</p>