2. “Legend has it the Ernest Hemingway was once challenged
to write a story in six words. Papa came back swinging with
‘For sale: baby shoes, never worn.’ SMITH Magazine, an
online magazine that celebrates storytelling, asked
‘What would a six-word memoir look like?’ ” The following
six-word memoirs are excerpts from their publication, Not
Quite What I Was Planning Six-Word Memoirs By Famous
& Obscure Writers.

3. Wasted time regretted
so life reinvented.
-Vicky Oppus

4. Fourteen years old,
story still untold.
-David Gidwani

5. My reach always
exceeds my grasp.
-Ray Garraud

6. Found great happiness in insignificant details.
-Alisdair McDiarmid

7. Never really finished
anything, except cake.
-Carletta Perkins

8. Learning disability, MIT.
Never give up.
-Joe Keselman

9. Doing more for less is life.
-Rondell Conway

10. Anything’s possible with an extension cord.
-BillySTRR

11. Painful nerd kid,
happy nerd adult.
-L.J. Williamson

12. Brought it to a boil, often.
-Mario Batali

13. Danced in
Fields
Of Infinite
Possibilities.
-DeepakChopra

14. Cursed with cancer.
Blessed with friends.
-Hannah Davies

15. Business school? Bah!
Pop music? Hurrah!
-Max Robins

16. Used to add.
Now I subtract.
-Melissa Gorelick

17. Taking a lifetime
to grow up.
-Mirona Iliescu

18. I colored outside of the lines.
-Jacob Thomas

19. No words can describe my life.
-John Baldridge

20. I take photographs.
I see life.
-Daniel James

21. ONE LIFE.
SIX WORDS.
What’s Yours?