I saw this on another blog the other day, I really can’t remember any of the details but the idea behind it caught my attention. The challenge was to try to tell a story in six words. At first it didn’t that difficult but it really challenged my thought process, sentence structure and my vocabulary.
Here are some of my attempts; they are good, bad and horrifying. 🙂
-The long walk ended in tears.
-All his children fought their history.
-Irrevocably damaged, indeterminate optimism, eternity achieved.
-I went to the store forever.
-The house of one hundred truths.
-My notebook knows all my secrets.
-Love, hallucinations and how it works.
-Fall into a drink forget nothing.
-She always danced to her beat.
-From below every conversation was heard.
What’s your best attempt?
Literary.Land.of.Alysia 
I really liked the first one: “The long walk ended in tears.” It says a lot in only 6 words!
There is a a book titled Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure was published on Feb. 5, 2008. I heard about it on NPR, some of the memoirs are really good. Here is one in the theme of stories:
She missed him before he left.
He still lives in two worlds.
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thanks for sharing this idea. check out my post and tell me what you think. it’s titled “six words say more than twenty” 😛
This is marvelous. What a great idea for an exercise.>KB
tears flowed when life became unbalanced
I really like your 6 word story!
I did this! Come see my story.
Well done. Hemingway is said to have answered a similar call with: ‘For Sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.’
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I accept this challenge. 🙂
it seems next to impossible to do. I keep hemingway’s six words close to my heart as a goal.
you keep going, too!