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Ernest Hemingway, author of The Great Gatsby and well-known for his terse prose style, once had a friend bet him that he couldn’t write a story with six words or less. Hemingway, as the story goes, accepted the bet and successfully wrote a poignant story using only the allotted six words. In imitation of this famous author, other writers have tried their hands at writing their own six-word stories, a challenge I would like to extend to my fellow Emberians.

The rules are deceptively simple; just come up with (and post) six words that are coherent and inspire an entire story in the readers’ minds. Here are a couple examples I came up with to help you get started:

Cookie jar shatters. Little ones scatter.

They left their house behind half-finished.

Enjoy!

@jane-maree, @dakota, @evelyn, @andrew, @wordsmith, @all-Emberians