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The Hemmingway Challenge. Can YOU create a six word story?

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    #152
    RobbingBandit
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    Bosnia may beat Ireland on Saturday.


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    #153
    pickarooney
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    She picked the least expensive coffin.


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    #154
    Improbable
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    Ignore me. Invisible. Hope for heaven.


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    #155
    forfuxsake
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    2 lines. wrong pee.wedding off.


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    #156
    Krispie
    Registered Users Posts: 160 ✭✭Krispie


    Just look up. Don't look doooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnnnnnn


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    #157
    Dyr
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    Forks. Glossary. An Indelicate glance. Ponce?


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    #158
    Ellis Dee
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    He followed a serious constricting path.:)


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    #159
    Sea Filly
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    No, OP. That is my story.


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    #160
    donegal_man
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    The Ironic Conversation
    "I'm Richard Dawkins"
    "Oh my God!"


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    #161
    Twinkleboots
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    It made me want to vomit.


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    #162
    Sea Filly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭Sea Filly


    Incidentally, call me a philistine, but I don't think Ernest Hemingway's offering is that great. My logical cap went on reading it, there could be myriad reasons why baby shoes wouldn't be worn.

    /philistine :o


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    #163
    Duggy747
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    Shìt me pants, no more underwear


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    #164
    OldGoat
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    Eyes clenched, betting slip fisted, willing.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



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    #165
    nice1franko
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    Oncologist came, said "it's back again"


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    #166
    yeppydeppy
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    OldGoat wrote: »
    Eyes clenched, betting slip fisted, willing.

    Eyes clenched, being fisted, not willing.


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    #167
    davetherave
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    Can't live, with or without you.


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    #168
    sbsquarepants
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    Your honour, please, she looks legal!


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    #169
    Sea Filly
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    Duggy747 wrote: »
    Shìt me pants, no more underwear

    Do a wash, you lazy fúcker!

    :pac:


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    #170
    Irishgoatman
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    The Sun rose in the west.


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    #171
    the purple tin
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    It's my husband! He's back early!
    and the sequel
    Quick, help me find my trousers!


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    #172
    sbsquarepants
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    the purple tin wrote: »
    It's my husband! He's back early!
    and the sequel
    Quick, help me find my trousers!

    Part 3 of the trilogy:

    Gun works fine, told you so!


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    #173
    Conall Cernach
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    I once was a decent man.


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    #174
    flutterflye
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    You'll be sorry when I'm gone.


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    #175
    pickarooney
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    Sea Filly wrote: »
    Incidentally, call me a philistine, but I don't think Ernest Hemingway's offering is that great. My logical cap went on reading it, there could be myriad reasons why baby shoes wouldn't be worn.

    /philistine :o

    That's precisely why it's a good story, IMO. It could just as easily be a miscarriage, infant death or a screwed-up order on eBay. I actually tried to sell a pair that were too small by the time we got them and was going to use those six words as the ad text. Seemed a little creepy though.


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    #176
    FoxT
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    Trauma, Drama, NAMA.
    liquidation, frustration, emigration.


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    #177
    Sea Filly
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    pickarooney wrote: »
    That's precisely why it's a good story, IMO. It could just as easily be a miscarriage, infant death or a screwed-up order on eBay.

    But I guess I don't find that compelling? Those reasons seem mundane to me. But, like any writer, he's not for everyone!


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    #178
    pickarooney
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    Sea Filly wrote: »
    But I guess I don't find that compelling? Those reasons seem mundane to me. But, like any writer, he's not for everyone!

    They could be death laser shoes and the parents didn't trust the child to only kill bad guys?

    Or automagic tap-dancing shoes that earn you millions of dollars in exchange for a wasting disease.

    Or shoes made of a super resistant leather that, no matter how badly you treat them, never become worn.


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    #179
    SomeGuyCalledMi
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    Worlds last man jumped, phone rang.


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    #180
    Seachmall
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    Mutually assured destruction. Marriage in synopsis.


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    #181
    Sea Filly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭Sea Filly


    pickarooney wrote: »
    They could be death laser shoes and the parents didn't trust the child to only kill bad guys?

    Or automagic tap-dancing shoes that earn you millions of dollars in exchange for a wasting disease.

    Or shoes made of a super resistant leather that, no matter how badly you treat them, never become worn.

    But the reason won't be any of those fabulous things! :pac:

    I'm way too pragmatic for my own good. :o


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