Six Word Stories
November 24th, 2006
Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words:
For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” and is said to have called it his best work.
A magazine invited other writers to try the same.
Give it a try yourselves?
Failed SAT. Lost scholarship. Invented rocket.
- William Shatner
Computer, did we bring batteries? Computer?
- Eileen Gunn
From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.
- Gregory Maguire
It cost too much, staying human.
– Bruce Sterling
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22 Responses to “Six Word Stories”
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November 27th, 2006 at 3:45 am
UAV, do you read me? UAV?
November 27th, 2006 at 9:22 am
isaac: what does UAV stand for?
November 29th, 2006 at 12:55 am
Ling Ying: Is that a story?
Story by Jek Kee.
November 29th, 2006 at 12:57 am
Here is another story:
“Gay is okay,” says PM Lee
November 29th, 2006 at 1:00 am
These stories sure are getting weird.
Yet another story done by Jek Kee.
Wait a minute, that’s another story!
And yet another!
Okay, the third last was not.
But the second last was.
November 30th, 2006 at 1:06 am
Arrg!
What am I talking about!!!
Are these even stories, anyway???
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrg!!!!!!!!!!!
I am going crazy!!!
November 30th, 2006 at 10:25 am
Ling Ying.
UAV stands for Un-manned Air Vehicle
The second sentence is a story
Same for the third and fourth
December 7th, 2006 at 3:10 am
Hmm… “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”
Why do they call it a story? What must a story possess? Mustn’t there be a complication in a story? I mean, all fictional stories have complications, unless it is a non-fictional text. And btw, can 6 word stories be a fact?
I particularly like the story written by Eileen Gunn as it portrays our reliance on computers and that we would not know what to do when they do not work anymore.
Maybe good 6 word stories must have a hidden meaning, just like the one written by Eileen Gunn. Is it true? Like, maybe, “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” is confirming the fact that the baby shoes were never worn, just in case people think that the shoes are second hand. Does this mean that there are a lot of second hand baby shoes around?
Please answer all my questions!
December 8th, 2006 at 10:44 am
Gloria, not nessecarily, but some people just write it because there is nothing to write.
December 11th, 2006 at 5:18 am
err those are stories? 6 words??!?! and isaac the first one, since its an abbreviation, won’t the UAV be 3 words? >_>
December 17th, 2006 at 10:30 pm
A story:
Hello, can you hear me? Hello?
(I know this is very lame)
December 26th, 2006 at 10:44 am
For sale: baby’s shoes never worn
was written on Life! the straits times 24th Dec under Hemmingway’s shoes in pg 22-23 it is the start of a story
January 3rd, 2007 at 5:42 am
Another story:
Good Bye, Bon Voyage, Good Bye
(I know this is even lamer than Joe Joe’s)
January 22nd, 2007 at 8:44 am
Lame?maybe not. yes! Lame! Oh?not lame?Oh! It cost me too much, being lame… What?are you sure?very sure?WHAT!!! Cool!VERY nice! I’m writing a story of many stories! Cool!
January 23rd, 2007 at 8:18 am
Maybe…
It cost too much, acting lame.
I should have just take off my disguise…
Hmm…
January 23rd, 2007 at 8:18 am
I didn’t quite get Kim.
Tomuchwordsatonce!!!
January 25th, 2007 at 8:55 am
Here’s my six word lame story: Six word story? Where are you?
February 21st, 2007 at 10:10 pm
I like eggs. They’re so tasty.
February 23rd, 2007 at 10:01 pm
Mayday!Mayday!Radio?Radio?please start!!!
February 27th, 2007 at 7:15 am
How interesting. This starting of a song is actually a six word story.
Scooby Dooby Doo, where are you?
March 4th, 2007 at 9:21 pm
From broken glass, Edison created light….
June 27th, 2009 at 10:15 am
I refer to my comment dated December 7th, 2006 at 3:10 am.
Hmm, now looking back, I realise that the words “never worn” actually mean something – it could mean that the seller was expecting children, buying baby shoes for his/her child, but somehow maybe that child wasn’t born (i.e. miscarriage?)
ok this somehow reminds me of Marley n Me (WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD), where the character which Jennifer Aniston plays (can’t remember her name offhand) was preparing for their 1st baby, but she suffered a miscarriage.
Oh, and when I looked up Ernest Hemingway’s name on wikipedia (haha, despite Mr Grosse’s countless reminders not to trust wikipedia fully) and found out that he had a wife named Mary Welsh Hemingway, who had a miscarriage. I wonder if this had any relation to this 6 word story. I couldn’t source the date in which this story was written. Anyone can help?
It feels so strange to come back to this website again to read what i posted 2 years ago and think: did I really think like that before?
On another hand, well, I doubt anyone will be reading this, so… oh well. But if anyone does, it’ll be cool if you could reply so that I know at least we still remember this.
(Ok, so that sounds a little emo.)