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

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭Sea Filly


    No, OP. That is my story.


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  • 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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    Duggy747 wrote: »
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  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,103 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    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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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭Sea Filly


    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!


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,103 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    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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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭Sea Filly


    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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