6-word short story
Ernest Hemingway
“For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” is Ernest Hemingway’s shortest short story he ever wrote. Apparently, it is said he also considered it his best work.
I tired my hand at writing a 6-word short story, and here’s the result:
Followed her. Started raining. Shared umbrella.
Write your 6-word short story in the comment section!
Are you a short story writer?
Why don’t you enter the New Asian Writing
Short Story Anthology?
Here’s my contribution:
“It’s over, Man. Let her go.”
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[...] The short story Cat in the rain by Ernest Hemingway is one of my favorite pieces of short fiction written by an American writer. I read the story for the first time in my second year at the university and, ever since then, whenever I met people who shared my passion for literature, I bring up Cat in the rain. What puzzles me most is the uncertainty that I have regarding the cat. Is the cat that the American woman saw in the rain the same one with the cat that the innkeeper gave her at the end of the short story? [...]