Your story, in six words

Posted by Rubyslippers @triciaot, Jun 23 9:29am

Are you familiar with the Six Word Story?
“A six-word story is an entire story told in six words. It is a short narrative that can have all of the emotional themes of longer stories—from funny to dramatic, sad to scary. It can be poetic or straightforward.”

Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in only six words. Others gave their own spin into the six-word novel - a personal twist to describe a life in exactly six words, sometimes called these Six-Word Memoirs.
https://www.sixwordmemoirs.com/
“While these quick stories don’t have the classic beginning, middle, and end of a traditional storyline, they have a subject and verb that give the reader a sense of what’s happened and a bit of conflict.”
https://lib.pstcc.edu/sixwordstory#:~:text=The%20key%20to%20writing%20your,to%20tell%20a%20whole%20story.&text=In%20just%20six%20little%20words,be%20in%20what's%20left%20unsaid.
6 Word Story Examples
http://www.sixwordstories.net/
Here are a few of my favorites, including living through disease treatment:

Lost myself in my own labyrinth
Taking control of my own boat
Discover manage weep repeat heal survive
Disbelief anxiety fortitude bravery live on
Multitudes stand together at bell ringing
What came of it was life

Do you have a Six Word Story to share?

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opheli | @opheli | Oct 4 7:00am

In reply to @hardingv "Keep on going on. Then repeat." + (show)

Much grief, much hope, much love

captboat | @captboat | Oct 4 10:07am

There is still an empty tomb!

j0318 | @j0318 | Oct 4 10:24am

Bone marrow donor search - trusting life.

hardingv | @hardingv | Oct 5 12:02pm

Chemo, chemo, chemo. Did it work?

Denise | @denisestlouie | Oct 5 12:35pm

Forever healthy then I wasn't, bummer.

Denise

captboat | @captboat | Oct 5 4:47pm

In reply to @hardingv "Chemo, chemo, chemo. Did it work?" + (show)

@hardingv
My wife had stage 3 breast cancer in 2011. She received 8 rounds of chemotherapy and 10 rounds of radiation. She is a 13 year cancer-free survivor. We’ve been happily married for 55 years with God’s blessings. We wish God’s blessings to you as well.

thomaspmccoy | @thomaspmccoy | Oct 5 5:01pm

Kicking cancer to hell's abyss!

hardingv | @hardingv | Oct 5 5:02pm

Thank you. My husband was diagnosed in August with stage IV ge-junction cancer that metastasized to his liver. They are pursuing an aggressive chemo therapy regimen.

No individual is a statistic and I love hearing about others who beat the supposed odds.

sisyphus | @sisyphus | Oct 6 12:38am

In reply to @captboat "There is still an empty tomb!" + (show)

Your unflinching gaze toward a tomb waiting for your company...man you're a precious wise one...I can't even fathom anyone in my circles who get anywhere within a decade of such 'fanciful' closure to our mortal being.

Honestly, I have even gone to a Death Cafe, but not did I have no luck, the loudness in their seemed to betray their unease with our mortal finality. I am seriously looking for a few bold souls who can look straight into death, which in my case as one with declining faculties as an octogenarian, I would eagerly want to have a 'brave' talk about the Final Chapter' on earth.

Joining a writing club where people talk openly about what moves them most; Death is going to be my subject! I hope I would endear a few fellow humans with the force of my soulful words.