Write The Shortest Story You Can
An exercise - and a bit of fun.
Ten Shun!
Allegedly Ernest Hemingway wrote the shortest story ever - with a six-word narrative.
This is it - in its entirety:
“For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn’.
Intriguing, certainly.
However not only is there no evidence that Hemingway ever came up with the story - it isn’t even a story.
A story - or at least a plot - has…
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