Hemingway's Self-Proclaimed Greatest Short Story

[skahound]

The story goes that Ernest Hemingway was challenged to write a short-story in 10 words or fewer. He later proclaimed that it was one of the best stories he'd ever written. It actually spawned a whole new genre of writing called 'micro-fiction' which is typically a maximum of 100 words.

Hemingway's story was: "For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn."

Pretty poignant if you ask me. Leaves worlds to the reader's imagination.

[asdf_admin]

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I love this man. thx for the pictures.

[Mr.Big]

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excellent, it really does..

[Kinetic]

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Wow...

Now that´s a sign of true genious.

It made me pretty sad, actually.

[peloquin]

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hemingway rules. im actually reading a farewell to arms at the moment. ASDF ADMIN WE MUST DRINK MOJITOS SOOOON

[petesbeats]

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Hemingway's story was: "For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn."

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That is good. Leaves alot of unanswered questions.

[SyntaxTerror]

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Pataki Pal writes better micro fiction everytime he pushes the reply button on this site.


Thx the links.

[mixu]

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It's not really a story is it... I mean anyone can declare to be a genius. Actually I'm one. My best story was one word. Cottage.

[Kamal]

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^^ What an ending your story has..... wow Mixu....

[mixu]

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well, there's a beginning, a middle and an ending there. make of it what you will. i'm artistic you know. or is autistic?

[Yao]

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Some people oughtta get their heads outta their butts. Especially Hemingway.

[mixu]

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exactly

[Kamal]

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here's a story to ponder over....

an over achieving mountain climber gets a life long wish to scale the Himalays fulfilled. On the day of the climb, impatient as he was, set out to climb the Everest even before the rest of his crew had woken up. Alone, he sets off at an ungodly hour towards the peak. As the day creeps up on him and passes over to late evening, he finds himself stuck 1/2 the way to the top in the midst of a blizzard. Can barely see his own hands in front of him and then the man slips and tumbles downward. Falling as he gains speed, he barely makes out whats going as he tumbles and launches over a precipe and falls for what seems to be an eternity. Images of his wife, children, parents, childhood, grandparent flash in his mind in the span of a second when he's gears up to die...... and then suddenly..... a back crunching tug stops his fall abruptly. As every good climber, he had secured himself with his safety rope. Unfortunately the fall has bruised his back and hurt him severly.

Hanging alone in the desolate darkness, all he can feel is suspended aching body and the biting cold atmosphere all around him when he screams out with all his might...... GODDDDDDDDDDDDD, HELP ME, HELP MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. And the silence prevails again.... HELP MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, and more silence....... I'D DO ANYTHING TO LIVE GODDDDDDDDDDDD. When suddenly, he hears a whisper in his ear..... "cut ... the rope..."

Shocked and surprised out his mind, he reaches out into the darkness and grips onto the rope with both hands ........ and chooses against it.....

The next morning, the rescue team, finds a man, frozen solid, dead, clinging to his safety harness, dangling 2 feet above the ground....

[mixu]

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so what happened?

[Kamal]

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frozen solid = dead mixu, put down the stella now ....