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Whatever it was, President Kennedy at his press conference last week clung to six ambiguous words to describe the new U.S. position on a minimum detection system for a test ban: “Internationally ...

Can you pare the story of your life into just six words? Not Quite What I Was Planning is a collection of six-word memoirs by famous and not-so-famous writers. Their stories are sometimes sad ...

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Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway took a bet to write a story in just six words. His sad, evocative tale — “For sale: baby shoes. Never worn.” — supposedly won him $10.

Six words is all you've got, and six words is all you need, to enthrall, spook, surprise, and delight us with your ultra-short science fiction tales!

In 2008, the magazine curated Not Quite What I Was Planning, a collection of six-word memoirs inspired by novelist Ernest Hemingway, who, when asked to write a full story in six words, responded ...