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 whole, real life can be told this way too.

The results are fascinating, hilarious, shocking, and moving. Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six Word Memoirs by Famous and Obscure writers (including Jonathan Lethem and Richard Ford, comedians Stephen Colbert and Amy Sedaris, and ordinary folks around the world) proves that everyone has a six-word story to tell. What's yours?
Sundance is asking you, word lovers, to send us your six word memoir.

Send your memoir to sundance@sundancebookstore.com

No words profane, just profound please!

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