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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@triciaot

I’m old enough to know better.

Young enough to do it anyway.

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I'm old enough to need Cialis.

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@itchyd

Why didn't you say "that" again? 🤔

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Didn't say "that" the first time. 😊

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@my44

Didn't say "that" the first time. 😊

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Guess that's that ... or that's it.

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@hardingv

Type in Comment box at end.
Or in a post Reply box.

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Got it. thanks

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@done24

how do I submit my 6 word story?

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Write a story in six words.

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@itchyd

Spell check is eval, evul, evel.

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What do we want? End autocorrect!

When do we want it? Cow!

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@itchyd

Lose the door, call the NTSB.

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But put on your parachute first.

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@itchyd

That's true. I'm strumming it, too. 🪕

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Whistling Dixie means "unrealistically rosy fantasizing."

Is that the tune you're strumming?

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@hardingv

Whistling Dixie means "unrealistically rosy fantasizing."

Is that the tune you're strumming?

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Alas, sweet Rosy: an unrequited love!💔

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@hardingv

But put on your parachute first.

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Best advice D.B. Cooper got.

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