Six word short stories (Hemingway Challenge)

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In creative writing class yesterday, we talked about six word short stories. They originated when Ernest Hemingway once bet some people at a restaurant that he could write an entire short story in six words, wrote it down on a napkin, passed it around the table, and collected his winnings. The story was "For sale: baby shoes, never worn."

I'd like to see what six word short stories people on GTP can come up with, these can be quite clever.

This is my 666th post, by the way.
 
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I think we had something similar before, IIRC, and that ended up getting locked.
 
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I think we had something similar before, IIRC, and that ended up getting locked.
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That wasn't six words. :sly:
 
Waiter gets fired, serves him right.
 
The thread is 6 word short stories. Not build a story six words at a time. :sly:
 
"Locked thread: this one will be."
 
Another spam thread? Shoot me now.
 
His life was never the same.
 
Now Ettick sees, why t'was locked.
 
I am Groot. We are Groot.
 
This short story ends right here.
 
I'd also argue that "For sale: baby shoes, never worn" isn't so much a story as it is an advert.
 
Nothing here is a short story.
 
Aim, empty lungs, fire, dead President.
 
Eruption, landslide, drunkard saves child.
 
Ettick
These are not short stories. Please stay with the thread topic.
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Mine is as much as Hemingway's.
 
A premise, an event, a conclusion.
 
In before, the lock I was.
 
What is this? I don't even...
 
I think Ettick is missing the humor of Hemingway's original "short story".
 
GTPlanet never liked these threads, fortunately.
 
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I'd also argue that "For sale: baby shoes, never worn" isn't so much a story as it is an advert.
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You need to read between the line ;)
Only 6 words is hard. I'm gonna have to do this in Swedish:

"Bilvrak bärgat. I handskfacket en förlovningsring."

Translation:

"Car wreck recovered. In the glove compartment an engagement ring."


Hemingway's example would be only 3 words in Swedish, by the way:

"Säljes: Babyskor, oanvända."
 
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