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Maureen Dilger
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What's your short story in 6 words? Go!

I was recently reminded of the power of telling a story in 6 words or less.

In a Wired article written in 2006 (link below), they mentioned how Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words - "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." Hemingway is said to have called this his best work. So let's do this TED style.

Tell me a short story about YOU in 6 words.

Here's my go at it.
Someone says no. I say yes.

* Wired Reference: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/sixwords.html

Topics: about you short stories storytelling

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Andrea Morisette Grazzini 30+
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Jul 14 2011: Says to self: show to see.
Sherrie von Sternberg
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Jul 14 2011: oldest of twelve; too many children
Muhammad Aizat Zainal Alam 30+
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Jul 14 2011: I love you no matter what. ;)
Sherrie von Sternberg
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Jul 14 2011: Life has a way of improving
- Kate Blake 50+
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  Jul 14 2011: so glad your storms are smoothing
Colleen Steen 500+
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Jul 13 2011: Opportunity doesn't knock...build a door:>)
- Kate Blake 50+
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  Jul 14 2011: live each moment, that's the score
Colleen Steen 500+
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Jul 13 2011: Smiles are contagious; be a carrier:>)
- Kate Blake 50+
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  Jul 14 2011: don't let grumpiness be a barrier
Ray Bannatyne
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Jul 13 2011: I am that I shall become.

Ray Bannatyne
Jimmy Strobl 30+
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Jul 13 2011: No more "short comment" conversations please!
- Kate Blake 50+
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  Jul 13 2011: what's the problem? you sound stern!
  
  you missed the really serious stuff
  already deleted, don't get in a huff!
  - Jimmy Strobl 30+
    
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    Jul 13 2011: many single word discussions, destroying conversations.
  - Jimmy Strobl 30+
    
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    Jul 13 2011: Too little room for intellectual debate.
  - Jimmy Strobl 30+
    
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    Jul 13 2011: Do not mean to be stern.
  - Jimmy Strobl 30+
    
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    Jul 13 2011: Feels like a competition for comments.
- Kate Blake 50+
  - 0
  Jul 13 2011: the challenge is concise comprehensive comments!
  
  thanks for joining, glad you explained
  - Jimmy Strobl 30+
    
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    Jul 13 2011: The challenge is, quote not counted "Tell me a short story about YOU in 6 words."
  - Jimmy Strobl 30+
    
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    Jul 13 2011: Not "build sentences for each other."
  - Jimmy Strobl 30+
    
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    Jul 13 2011: This is really not like Hemingway.
- Kate Blake 50+
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  Jul 13 2011: Please tell us all about Jimmy?
  - Jimmy Strobl 30+
    
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    Jul 13 2011: I have, it is down there!
  - Jimmy Strobl 30+
    
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    Jul 13 2011: "I searched, I found, we grow"
    - Kate Blake 50+
      
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      Jul 13 2011: we shall become what we sow
Jimmy Strobl 30+
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Jul 13 2011: Have you read the conversation terms?
Jimmy Strobl 30+
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Jul 13 2011: This conversation is fun, not productive.
- Debra Smith 200+
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  Jul 13 2011: Productive is only one measuring stick.
  - Jimmy Strobl 30+
    
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    Jul 13 2011: That is true, I want both.
    - Debra Smith 200+
      
      +1
      
      Jul 13 2011: Sometimes, I think we need to let others enjoy life their way and just give them our blessing. When a topic is not for me, I take a peak, see that others are enjoying themselves, smile, and click over to someplace else. Live and let live is a great philosophy in many realms.
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    - Debra Smith 200+
      
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      Jul 13 2011: Sending you love for troubled spirit!
- Kate Blake 50+
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  Jul 13 2011: Flagging - you are both over six!
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    - Kate Blake 50+
      
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      Jul 13 2011: was only joking - not my style!
      
      sorry, sorry, breath deep a while
  - Jimmy Strobl 30+
    
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    Jul 13 2011: Please flag anyway, need new Admin.
  - Debra Smith 200+
    
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    Jul 13 2011: Mea Culpa! Mea Culpa! So sorry!
    - Kate Blake 50+
      
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      Jul 13 2011: forgiven sweetness! Jimmy take a break?
    - Jimmy Strobl 30+
      
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      Jul 13 2011: Will not help, TED in mind.
    - Jimmy Strobl 30+
      
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      Jul 13 2011: I will delete my long comments.
    - Kate Blake 50+
      
      +1
      
      Jul 13 2011: got a healthy way to unwind?
      long walk, cuppa, lighten the mind
      read, sleep, to yourself be kind!
      nothing is worth such a bind
    - Jimmy Strobl 30+
      
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      Jul 13 2011: Think you exaggerate, not THAT upset.
    - Jimmy Strobl 30+
      
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      Jul 13 2011: Bad emotions are cured by TED.
    - Kate Blake 50+
      
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      Jul 14 2011: no, only in our own head!
Moran Avital
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Jul 13 2011: calm outside, turbulence within, sanity?
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- Sherrie von Sternberg
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  Jul 13 2011: long as we can take it!
Sherrie von Sternberg
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Jul 13 2011: A PLANET FULL OF LOVE.....WISDOM
Sherrie von Sternberg
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Jul 13 2011: the others make for true jubilation
Sherrie von Sternberg
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Jul 13 2011: my soul is hopeful after inspection
Sherrie von Sternberg
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Jul 13 2011: my children live as my reflection
- Kate Blake 50+
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  Jul 13 2011: as mother you will give protection
R Vishnu prasad
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Jul 13 2011: I failed,am failing,will succeed.
- Kate Blake 50+
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  Jul 13 2011: to your inner voice give heed!
- Sherrie von Sternberg
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  Jul 13 2011: you,Vishnu,have all you need :)
- Kate Blake 50+
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  Jul 13 2011: yes, his confidence we must feed!
Maureen Dilger
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Jul 13 2011: Chapter one's finale on the horizon
Thanks for sharing your short stories
You've added joyful wonder into mine
A girl about yes, together please
- Kate Blake 50+
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  Jul 13 2011: stay posted I have an idea
  to continue something quite similar here
Laurens Rademakers 50+
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Jul 13 2011: I came. I saw. I conquered not.
- Kate Blake 50+
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  Jul 13 2011: good chap, you'll not be forgot!
Sherrie von Sternberg
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Jul 13 2011: You spoke and struck me dumb
- Kate Blake 50+
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  Jul 13 2011: not like you to be numb?
Andrew Buchmann
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Jul 13 2011: Yes, I am a biological machine.
- Kate Blake 50+
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  Jul 13 2011: Andrew you don't sound too keen?
  - Andrew Buchmann
    
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    Jul 13 2011: I enjoy the reality of nature.
    - Kate Blake 50+
      
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      Jul 13 2011: nature is but part of you!
  - Andrew Buchmann
    
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    Jul 13 2011: The mechanism of physics drives all. :)
- Kate Blake 50+
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  Jul 13 2011: beyond me, each to our call
Kate Blake 50+
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Jul 12 2011: feel sad that this will end!

have made many a new friend!
- Maureen Dilger
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  Jul 13 2011: Who'll start new chapters to tend
  - Kate Blake 50+
    
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    Jul 13 2011: hearts and minds will surely mend
Helena Ripoll Hazell 20+
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Jul 12 2011: Said it, did it, now resting.
- Kate Blake 50+
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  Jul 12 2011: sounds like a job rather testing?

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