Six word memoirs!
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Poet on the Piano
6 years agoHey! So I had a flashback to my high school creative writing class where we wrote our own six word memoirs. I loved this challenge as it can be inspiring and an exercise in brevity.
Many of is know the famous one by Ernest Hemingway "For sale: baby shoes, never worn."
Here are some others I found online:
"After cancer, I became a semicolon." - Anthony Cardno
"Family portrait: everyone smiles but me." - Ian Baaske
"Found on Craigslist: table, apartment, fiance." - Becki Lee
"Out of wine, nuns went mad." - brunokim (reddit)
"Axe falling, the rooster crows, "Wait!"' - bugloaf (reddit)
"Freeze! Don't move!"
"I'm just..."
"BANG!"
- iliococcygeus (reddit)
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So what is your six word memoir?? Feel free to share many :) -
Poet on the Piano replied to Jamie (Lia)
6 years ago, updated 6 years agoLia, that is haunting, and something that usually isn't said. As depression can bring people to such a dark, isolated place. I read it as a fight that you are alive, alive in spite of depression, that even if you don't want to keep trying, you refuse to let it win. Keep fighting the good fight, friend.
Here's a silly one for the moment:
Baxter barked and barked, til dawn. -
nouriguess replied to Poet on the Piano
6 years agoAw, so cute. My puppy's name is Baxter and he barks for, like, any reason. There are people walking down the street, he barks. The wind blows, he barks. A bird is flying outside, he barks.
Here's one from me:
I'm fat. I ate all that. -
Everlasting
6 years ago, updated 6 years agoEating fruits while climbing Mandarin trees.
Candle seducing toddler. *Slap* Hand aches. -
Star replied to nouriguess
6 years agoI love this too :)
And Noura, I think most of relate to that lol
Here is one:
Simplicity is her kind of dress -
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silvershoes
6 years ago, updated 6 years agoThey buried him quickly, then hid.
There's my six word murder mystery, mwahaha.
Some others...
The chickens screamed in the henhouse.
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She winks.
He removes his ring.
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Update profile: Delete "In a relationship." -
Poet on the Piano
6 years agoNice, everybody!
Inspired by Lia's one about depression:
Depression - being loved by a predator. -
silvershoes replied to Poet on the Piano
6 years agoIt hurts, but that's love... right?
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Lost One
6 years ago, updated 6 years agoIf its raining, infantry is training.
-not my words, but my story nonetheless -
silvershoes
6 years ago, updated 6 years agoI just reread your initial post, MA, and I totally missed the point. I thought we were writing 6 word stories, not personal memoirs. Let me try this again.
Sob into my hands. Smile. Repeat. -
Poet on the Piano replied to silvershoes
6 years agoOh Jane, there's no right or wrong! Share whatever you like.
Mine for today:
World tilts. Eyes spin. Mind fails. -
Ben Pickard
6 years ago, updated 6 years agograss stained scissors confirm my madness
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Larry Chamberlin
6 years agoFacebook in hand, never saw ME.
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Larry Chamberlin
6 years agoMozart composed music only angels knew
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Poet on the Piano
6 years ago, updated 6 years agoHymn for the hopeless: "I'm listening".
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Elizandra Lopes replied to Poet on the Piano
6 years ago" 'revolution', my hand in his, friends..." - Elizandra Lopes
