Your story, in six words

Posted by Rubyslippers @triciaot, Jun 23, 2024

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.
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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I hear she's a free spirit.

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Absolutely ... fun in the sun rules!

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Charon feeding of your psychopomp, perhaps?

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Psychopomp ... pump .. poop. Is bleeding feeding?

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Psychopomp ... pump .. poop. Is bleeding feeding?

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Lunch-break: Charon does the psychopomp chomp.

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Only if the retooling includes dueling.

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Absolutely ... fun in the sun rules!

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🎵"That's when I fell for the ...."🎵

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Psychopomp ... pump .. poop. Is bleeding feeding?

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Count Dracula asks:
"Are you serious?"

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Hear of Harding?
Or
Hard of hearing?

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Harding says hear ye, hear ye.

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Lunch-break: Charon does the psychopomp chomp.

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Chomp. Ouch! Chomp. OUCH! Whack. Poop.

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Only if the retooling includes dueling.

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It is going to be grueling.

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🎵"That's when I fell for the ...."🎵

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The one setting a new direction.

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