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  Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure

  by Larry Smith, Rachel Fershleiser

  Deceptively simple and surprisingly addictive, Not Quite What I Was Planning is a thousand glimpses of humanity—six words at a time. One Life. Six Words. What's Yours? When Hemingway famously wrote, "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn," he proved that an entire story can be told using a half dozen words. When the online storytelling magazine SMITH asked readers to submit six-word memoirs, they proved a... (more)