Evidently this has been around for a while, but it's news to me. There are a whole lot of six word memoirs and stories out there, from Smith Magazine's collection of books, to Wired's collection of six word science fiction stories.
My personal favorite? The original, Hemingway's: For sale: baby shoes, never worn.
It is at once heartbreaking and beautiful, and much of that beauty comes from its brevity and simplicity.
And there's a version especially for teenagers. Reading the stories and seeing the art that accompanies some of them is inspiring, and it seems like a pretty perfect medium for the generation of texting, twittering, facebooking teens who are growing up now.
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