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Accepting the Hemingway challenge |
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 01, 2008 | | | By Kelly A. Shue
THE ERICKSON TRIBUNE
Recently, members of the Riderwood community participated in a campus-wide challenge once presented to Ernest Hemingway. Legend has it that the renowned
author was asked to write a full story in six words. Hemingway accepted the challenge, penning the heartfelt and moving story: “For Sale: baby shoes, never worn.”
These six small words served as a lesson to verbose writers everywhere—
sometimes less is best. Faced with the challenge of creating similar stories, more than three dozen members of the Riderwood community crafted their own six-word
memoirs.
“Tw o sai led away— five dropped anchor”
(The abbreviated memoir refers to my life with a career sailor (USN type) and the three children that we established a “ home port” for.)
—Barbara Stroud
“I’ ve lived , la ughed , a nd loved ! Lucky me!”
—Marge Kaplow
"Loose wire, hot wire, still wired"
— Al Valentino
"A privilege to have loved you"
— Anonymous
"Best-laid plans go oft awry"
— Sarajean Sherk
"Lived on five continents. Happiness everywhere!"
—Pat Whitty
Do you accept the Hemingway challenge?
The Erickson Tribune would love to read your six-word life stories. Please submit your stories to kelly.shue@erickson.com. We will print many of your entries in an upcoming issue of the Tribune.
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