The Shortest Story Ever Told.

08/18/08

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The Shortest Story Ever Told.

Ernest Hemingway, as a young newspaperman in the 1920s, bet his colleagues $10 that he could write a complete story in just six words.

He won the cash with this: “For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.”

Can anybody beat that?

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Comment from: bob scotney [Member]
How about?

Veni, vidi, vici.

If that is cheating, how about?

Born, lived, died. [I vaguely remember this from somewhere else.]
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