SMITH magazine, inspired by Ernest Hemingway’s quote of
For sale: Baby shoes, never worn
decided to ask for submissions of a six word memoirs, and within weeks they were flooded with submissions. Not quite what I was planning: Six word memoirs by writers famous and obscure is the result of these submissions, and is one of those funny little books that you pick up, not expecting much, and find out that six words can indeed say more than you would think, such as;
Found true love, married someone else
Perhaps mine could be:
Wrote the blog, not the book
Try thinking up some of your own, it’s harder than you think!
13 November 2008 at 12:46 pm
Here are a couple I just came up with -
Did some things, slept through others
In the end there’s always chocolate
I talked more than I did
Television doesn’t warp your mind…much.
13 November 2008 at 4:53 pm
Nice…. how about,
A middle-age spread is not margarine.
17 November 2008 at 6:47 pm
I was so impressed a few years back when Brian Edwards’ Top of the Morning show had a short story competition with a 50 word limit and there were many brilliant entries. They compiled them in to a book called the Top of the Morning book of incredibly short stories. It’s a great fun read.