"For sale: baby shoes, never worn."
Attributed to Ernest Hemmingway
How To Write Short (p. 113) by Roy Peter Clark
Little Brown and Company 2013
Clark writes that most assume the baby died. I certainly did. But I also thought it a wonderful creation--powerful in its brevity.
However, Clark suggests that the baby could have born without feet or with feet too big for the shoes. Are there other possibilities?
How about you? If you wrote a 6-word memoir, what might it say? Give it a try. Post it on facebook. (Clark suggests getting in the mood with Sixwordmemoirs.com; I'll check later. Till then . . .)
Eats, breathes, and loves words.
CRAVES WAVES.
Your Turn,
Lonnie
i before e
except after c
weird?
Roy Peter Clark
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