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

By Rachel Fershleiser, Larry Smith

Deceptively uncomplicated and strangely addictive, Not rather What i used to be Planning is one thousand glimpses of humanity—six phrases at a time.

One existence. Six phrases. what is Yours?

When Hemingway famously wrote, "For Sale: child sneakers, by no means worn," he proved that a whole tale should be instructed utilizing a part dozen phrases. while the net storytelling journal SMITH requested readers to publish six-word memoirs, they proved a complete, actual lifestyles may be instructed this manner too. the implications are attention-grabbing, hilarious, surprising, and moving.

From small sagas of bittersweet romance ("Found real love, married a person else") to proud achievements and stinging regrets ("After Harvard, had child with crackhead"), those terse actual stories relate the range of human event in tasty bite-sized items. From authors Jonathan Lethem and Richard Ford to comedians Stephen Colbert and Amy Sedaris, to boring parents world wide, everybody has a six-word tale to tell.

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