One of our assignments this week is to tell a six word story. You know the famous Hemingway (or whoever) one:
For sale.
Baby shoes.
Never worn.
That's just so perfect that mine always seemed to suck in comparison.
But since I have to write five a day for the next week, I tried to look at what makes Hemingway's so great. First, it's got a clear beginning, middle, and end. More importantly, as my friend Greg pointed out, it builds and then has a satisfying pay off: "Hey, look, someone's selling something. Baby shoes? That's weird, I wonder why they —oh, they were...never worn. Sigh."
Here's one I came up with.
First date.
Great chemistry.
Loud fart.
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