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#:~: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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@hardingv

It's the Ugly American on steroids.

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@hardingv

It's the Ugly American on steroids.

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One additional comment on your comment....

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@itchyd

Greenland's not quitting without a fight!

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David and Goliath fight. Who wins?

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@itchyd

Some additional embellishments were called for.

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Are we behind the eight ball?

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@itchyd

One additional comment on your comment....

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Those darned copyright laws. Foiled again. 😵

Wait. I can just ignore laws! 😁

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@hardingv

David and Goliath fight. Who wins?

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Seems David won by a nose!

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@hardingv

Are we behind the eight ball?

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It would certainly appear that way.

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@hardingv

Those darned copyright laws. Foiled again. 😵

Wait. I can just ignore laws! 😁

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Aye!
So sayeth the tin man!

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@itchyd

Seems David won by a nose!

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How about potato versus carrot noses?

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@hardingv

How about potato versus carrot noses?

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Those appear to be 🍆 noses.

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