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Title: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: DemonGurL on March 15, 2010, 03:46:21 PM
I'm new here but I thought I'd try to start an interesting and hopefully fun thread. We did this in my Fiction Writing class and it was actually amazing to hear the stuff people came up with. The idea is to write a story / memoir in six words; no more, no less. I think it came from a challenge given to Ernest Hemingway to which he wrote the following story:

For Sale: baby shoes, never worn.


Anyway, I came up with these:

I thought we were perfectly happy.

Addicted to video games: very lonely.

I never really liked you anyway.

Still dreaming of meeting Prince Charming.

Fell in love on the internet.
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: BizB on March 15, 2010, 04:58:19 PM
Couldn't think of anything to write.
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: pbsaurus on March 15, 2010, 04:59:18 PM
In accordance with prophecy--OMFG frogs!
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: 12AX7 on March 15, 2010, 09:41:19 PM
"Well... she left me my name."
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: 12AX7 on March 16, 2010, 03:19:27 AM
"Honey, this is my daughter."
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: BizB on March 16, 2010, 06:28:41 AM
Stop shaving his balls right now!
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: Wunderkind on March 16, 2010, 08:46:51 AM
Woke up; reminded me of you.
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: BizB on March 16, 2010, 09:04:41 AM
I saw her in a porno.
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: DemonGurL on March 16, 2010, 09:31:38 AM
I'm not jealous, she's ugly anyway.
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: ivan on March 18, 2010, 06:34:13 PM
Without apostrophes, six wouldn't've been enough.
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: ivan on March 18, 2010, 07:16:59 PM
Quote from: BizB on March 15, 2010, 04:58:19 PM
Couldn't think of anything to write.

I remembered there was a thread like this over at that place I used to frequent, so I went spelunking and was pleasantly reminded that you started it. Except it was 4, not 6 words.

An adaptation of my contribution:

Regarding hyphenated words: are they as-one-counted?
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: h4wt_b3t4 on March 21, 2010, 05:54:23 PM
Loved, lost, loved again- fuck it.
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: ivan on March 21, 2010, 09:08:14 PM
Ah-ha-ha. Yeah, right. Famous last words.
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: Novice on March 22, 2010, 12:38:06 PM
Back in class, miss spring break.
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: h4wt_b3t4 on March 22, 2010, 04:59:27 PM
Quote from: Novice on March 22, 2010, 12:38:06 PM
Back in class, miss spring break.

Ditto! I hate being back here.
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: BizB on March 23, 2010, 08:54:03 AM
Goodbye old friend; you were loved.

(http://www.bizb.biz/images/2010-03-20/2010032001_t.jpg)
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: ivan on March 23, 2010, 09:48:49 AM
Story: six words. Picture: a thousand.
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: Clear_Runway on March 23, 2010, 10:42:37 AM
well that just plain totally sucks
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: Wunderkind on March 25, 2010, 09:35:28 AM
Back in life; miss school days.
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: Demosthenes on March 25, 2010, 11:37:20 AM
Exchange 2007 Public Folder permissions FAIL.
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: xolik on March 25, 2010, 02:06:58 PM
Exchange 2007, the devil's new tool.
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: Demosthenes on March 25, 2010, 04:29:35 PM
Quote from: xolik on March 25, 2010, 02:06:58 PM
Exchange 2007, the devil's new tool.

The devil's new tool is flaccid.
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: DemonGurL on March 26, 2010, 07:45:47 PM
Liking how this thread is doing.
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: No on March 29, 2010, 05:39:22 AM
[insert a six-word-long witticism here, please]
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: Novice on March 29, 2010, 10:42:27 AM
make a newbie thread or die.
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: Clear_Runway on March 29, 2010, 10:46:53 AM
I think you have his answer
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: No on March 29, 2010, 12:30:15 PM
Quote from: Novice on March 29, 2010, 10:42:27 AM
make a newbie thread or die.

[dies a horrible and painful death]
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: Clear_Runway on March 29, 2010, 10:19:09 PM
thank god that he is dead
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: No on March 30, 2010, 05:52:16 AM
He did not die, she did.
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: ivan on March 30, 2010, 08:28:56 AM
Quote from: No on March 29, 2010, 05:39:22 AM
[insert a six-word-long witticism here, please]

Four words: I like this one.
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: hackess on April 01, 2010, 04:19:54 PM
Should have taken the blue pill.
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: ivan on April 01, 2010, 06:00:34 PM
I thought that was for him.
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Post by: pbsaurus on April 02, 2010, 12:21:24 PM
That is what she said, yup.
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: hackess on April 02, 2010, 12:23:48 PM
Tell your wife I loved another.
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: 12AX7 on April 05, 2010, 05:57:19 PM
There's not enough cats here anymoar...
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: Novice on April 13, 2010, 10:56:23 AM
We could have told you that.
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: Demosthenes on April 13, 2010, 04:14:43 PM
Quote from: bananaskittles on April 13, 2010, 10:49:31 AM
Should have never left the Geekery.

We knew you would be back.
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: h4wt_b3t4 on April 13, 2010, 05:41:52 PM
Found out my e-penis is large.
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: ivan on April 13, 2010, 06:27:01 PM
Quote from: Novice on April 13, 2010, 10:56:23 AM
We could have told you that.
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: pbsaurus on April 14, 2010, 07:22:10 PM
It has been nice knowing you
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: ivan on April 14, 2010, 07:54:30 PM
That sounds ominous... Are you ok?
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: pbsaurus on April 14, 2010, 10:29:59 PM
I didn't kill my boss butshereallydeservestobekilled.
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: Scheherazade on April 17, 2010, 11:27:41 PM
I wish I had a job.
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: xolik on April 17, 2010, 11:40:41 PM
many drinks a conscience awakening makes
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: ivan on April 18, 2010, 02:54:54 AM
That's not why most people drink.
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: Scheherazade on April 19, 2010, 11:52:50 AM
Not enough time in a day.
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: BizB on April 19, 2010, 12:08:33 PM
Who are you, again? I forget.
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: Scheherazade on April 19, 2010, 05:34:34 PM
The siren formerly known as ihatecliches.
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: pbsaurus on April 20, 2010, 03:26:46 PM
Explains
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: Wunderkind on April 21, 2010, 08:26:33 AM
"Explains" is not a six-word memoir.
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: ivan on April 21, 2010, 09:35:28 AM
And yet, it speaks voll yumes.
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: pbsaurus on April 21, 2010, 11:52:35 AM
indeed
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: 12AX7 on April 21, 2010, 12:05:18 PM
concur
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: h4wt_b3t4 on May 21, 2014, 03:58:12 PM
quite
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: reimero on May 22, 2014, 11:16:15 AM
indubitably
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: Wunderkind on November 07, 2016, 10:02:46 PM
You and I, in time, together.
Title: Re: Six-Word Memoir Fun!
Post by: hackess on November 08, 2016, 12:45:41 PM
Quote from: Wunderkind on November 07, 2016, 10:02:46 PM
You and I, in time, together.

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