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Six-Word Memoirs ...is a website sponsored by Smith Magazine that asks writers to write and post a memoir that is exactly six words long (http://www.smithmag.net/ sixwords/ ). The prompt was inspired by this Ernest Hemingway line: For sale: Baby shoes, never worn. The Six-Word Memoirs site created especially for teens is http:// www.smithteens.com /. Monday, August 26, 13

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Page 1: For sale: Baby shoes, never worn.csue402.weebly.com/.../8/6/2/3/8623935/six-word_memoirs.pdfMore Six-Word Memoirs You a bruise, me a scar. Always the salad, never the steak. I photoshopped

Six-Word Memoirs

...is a website sponsored by Smith Magazine that asks writers to write and post a memoir that is exactly six words long (http://www.smithmag.net/sixwords/). The prompt was inspired by this Ernest Hemingway line:

For sale: Baby shoes, never worn.

The Six-Word Memoirs site created especially for teens is http://www.smithteens.com/.

Monday, August 26, 13

Page 2: For sale: Baby shoes, never worn.csue402.weebly.com/.../8/6/2/3/8623935/six-word_memoirs.pdfMore Six-Word Memoirs You a bruise, me a scar. Always the salad, never the steak. I photoshopped

More Six-Word Memoirs

You a bruise, me a scar.

Always the salad, never the steak.

I photoshopped out your worst features.

Spending money like I’ve got it.

Monday, August 26, 13

Page 3: For sale: Baby shoes, never worn.csue402.weebly.com/.../8/6/2/3/8623935/six-word_memoirs.pdfMore Six-Word Memoirs You a bruise, me a scar. Always the salad, never the steak. I photoshopped

One life. Six words.

What’s yours?

Monday, August 26, 13