For sale: baby shoes, never used.

12/28/2008
—Ernest Hemingway

The original short short story and the inspiration for this website. In the 1920s, Ernest Hemingway’s colleagues bet him that he couldn’t write a complete story in just six words. They paid up. Hemingway is said to have considered it his best work.

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148 Responses to “For sale: baby shoes, never used.”

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  1. 3/1/2009Esc says:

    “It’s ok! happens to all guys…”

  2. 2/24/2009orlando says:

    Aces full baby needs new shoes.

  3. 2/24/2009lydia says:

    we used to exist without computers

  4. 2/12/2009Erin Carey says:

    Breaking bread with gods is sobering

  5. 2/12/2009Erin Carey says:

    She wondered why she wasn’t enough

  6. 2/12/2009Erin Carey says:

    In the aftermath, she preferred solitude

  7. 1/29/2009Alice H says:

    Ate date expired food. Never again!

  8. 1/29/2009tina smith says:

    I think therefore I am…thinking?

  9. 1/19/2009MEDIAMORPHOSIS’ BLOG » Six Word Stories says:

    [...] word stories è un contenitore di racconti di 6 parole, che prende ispirazione direttamente da Ernest Hemingway, che nel 1920 compone la sua short-short story, dopo aver accettato la sfida di un avventore di un [...]

  10. 1/19/2009Marsha in Texas says:

    Dear Geezer Guy - Are you a poet or a writer. Either way I am a fan.

  11. 1/18/2009old Texas geezer says:

    Blank page. Words run in mind.

  12. 1/18/2009Ryan Cheng says:

    How come life is like that?

  13. 1/18/2009Michael O'Connell says:

    Happiest man in the world laments

  14. 1/18/2009Carl William Brown says:

    The Pooh, an Italian music band. Puahh!

  15. 1/17/2009Neil Murrell says:

    Aerial impaled postman. Best reception ever.

  16. 1/17/2009Mac says:

    We do and we don’t fly.

  17. 1/17/2009Mac says:

    Trick heart, slick mind, tired eyes.

  18. 1/17/2009Mac says:

    Watch what you say, I do.

  19. 1/17/2009Mac says:

    Watch what you say. I do

  20. 1/17/2009Mac says:

    Lost her sweater. Kept his jacket.

  21. 1/17/2009Mac says:

    Failed to plan. Planned to fail

  22. 1/17/2009Mac says:

    Been too long living not alive.

  23. 1/17/2009Mac says:

    Mornings dying, stars fall at night.

  24. 1/16/200914 year old cryptic girl says:

    I’m crazy enough to be human.

  25. 1/16/2009laura palmer says:

    went on.live on.die alone

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