It all changed in a instant: more six-word memoirs
You only get six words to write your story. The story goes Earnest Hemingway was once challenged to write a short story in six words. Whether it was to settle a bar bet or just a challenge, we don’t know. We do know the story itself:
Baby shoes. For Sale. Never Worn
Smith Magazine has picked up and asked people to write their six-word memoirs. Famous and unknown side by side, spilling out their lives on paper.
Breast Cancer: Zero. My life: Won.
They are sad, poignant, funny, open, distressing, sorrowful, hopeful, piteous, inspirational; the list can go on.
And she lived happily ever after.
We get to peak in on people who are all in different places in their life. Most of them, we know nothing about expect for these six words. Some I wish I knew more about; who are they and what have they seen in life.
Raped, never forgave myself, wasted life.
I enjoyed peaking in on other people’s lives that they want to share, like the Post Secret books. This is book to leave laying around and read a couple pages, put it down and come back to it. Maybe a couple will really speak to you to write you own six-word memoir.
I will leave not with six words from the book, but from Leonard Cohen’s song. Six words that will fit some for Valentines Day:
There ain’t no cure for love