At the opposite end of the spectrum from those 100,000-word novels I tend to write are six-word stories I also enjoy. One of the most famous six-word stories ever written, and perhaps the most devastating, is by Ernest Hemingway. “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”
I’ve written six-word memoirs and six-word Covid stories. Now here are twenty new ones. You should try it. Six words may seem limiting, but the possibilities are endless, and most importantly, you can finish them!
Will you?
For you, anything.
Almost.
Passing days
With distractions
I love
Hardly remember you
If at all
She hissed.
He growled.
They reconsidered.
My heart wants
My head dissents
Slowly.
Not any word
Will do
More effort, she said.
I’m trying.
I ran
Stumbled
Righted
Ran again
I do
I do
Now pronounced
God? I believe not.
Hell bound?
Dug a hole
The cat died
My purpose keeps changing without conviction.
Heart asunder
Must find the pieces
The day began
Without his presence
Many years
To not remember you.
The edge the vertigo the end.
Sun breaks through
His shadowed mood
Hard on myself
Lenient of others
I arrived
She didn’t
Left alone
Might have
Another novel in me.
