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. 5/29/2009Paddy says:

    Absolute doesn’t exist. Then saw bottle.

  2. 5/27/2009Twitter and Other Musings « Muse says:

    [...] site only allows 140 characters per post.  I couldn’t help but think of Hemingway with his six word story (”For Sale. Baby Shoes. Never Worn.”) and what a great tweeter he would be.  Trained [...]

  3. 5/27/2009isaline8 says:

    Wrong DNA test discovered after abortion.

  4. 5/12/2009Robert A. Knight says:

    Tailgaiters do it from behind

  5. 5/8/2009Dawn Leonetti says:

    Lipstick helped distract from deep conversation.

  6. 5/8/2009Dawn Leonetti says:

    Stories alone couldn’t fill her soul.

  7. 5/7/2009Ty_Fitzgerald says:

    Compose, Half press, Click, Review, Despair.

  8. 4/30/2009Frau Glock says:

    remember: blackberries are fruits. not organizers.

  9. 4/29/2009Gaurav Kumat says:

    Got up. Went work. Came home.

  10. 4/29/2009Braden D. O'Neill says:

    Because last man standing went missing

  11. 4/25/2009Angelia Megahan says:

    The daughter despised. Her mother demeaned.

  12. 4/8/2009Gayathri says:

    She got promoted, Wife to Friend

  13. 3/30/2009Shunty says:

    Tried,cried but she dint agreed!!

  14. 3/24/2009Raphael Wyeth says:

    What’s so bad about being average?

  15. 3/23/2009Tom Rubio says:

    Rocks, this street of lost hubcaps.

  16. 3/16/2009Wendy V. says:

    She ordered coffee. Black, no sugar.

  17. 3/3/2009Ross says:

    what’s so good about being average?

  18. 3/3/2009Mike H says:

    Myanmar horror. Sliced throats. Burma shave.

  19. 3/3/2009Dan Blake says:

    Wake, work, sleep. Resistance is futile.

  20. 3/3/2009mike says:

    careful sire, last man still missing…

  21. 3/3/2009nowbounce says:

    two days under calories, i surrender

  22. 3/2/2009Elroy says:

    Incontinent rockstar: shit hits the fan.

  23. 3/2/2009Andrea Nicolo' says:

    My story doesn’t fit six words.

  24. 3/2/2009beajerry says:

    Radio blares ghost story… without batteries.

  25. 3/1/2009Subtelty says:

    Sometimes I wonder if I exist…

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