# Six word stories...show us your Hemingways **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 30, 2009, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-word-stories-show-us-your-hemingways/483715 "2009-01-30T14:52:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-word-stories-show-us-your-hemingways/483715/41 "2009-01-30T22:14:06Z")
Original compositions (by me): “We never met, yet said goodbye.” “He slowly opened his hand. Nothing.” “I specifically asked for NO CHEESE!” Six word phrases that effectively sum up an entire work: “It is Margaret you mourn for.” -Gerard Manley Hopkins, [Spring and Fall (to a young child)](http://www.bartleby.com/122/31.html) “In the beginning was the Word…” (the Gospel of John) “This song is just six words long.” -Weird Al Yankovic ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-word-stories-show-us-your-hemingways/483715/42 "2009-01-30T22:25:26Z")
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. ---
**Author:** ![Maia\_s\_Well](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Maia\_s\_Well](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maia_s_Well)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-word-stories-show-us-your-hemingways/483715/43 "2009-01-31T00:36:33Z")
Outstanding responses. Thank you for playing! I feel like I know y’all. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-word-stories-show-us-your-hemingways/483715/44 "2009-01-31T00:38:07Z")
Schubert, writing his eighth symphony, suddenly… ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-word-stories-show-us-your-hemingways/483715/45 "2009-01-31T00:38:26Z")
> [@dactylic\_hexameter](#): > > Found: abandoned Chihuahua. Not housebroken. Bites. Missing: large lab rat. No reward. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-word-stories-show-us-your-hemingways/483715/46 "2009-01-31T00:43:37Z")
The hills are alive…with mutants. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-word-stories-show-us-your-hemingways/483715/47 "2009-01-31T00:44:15Z")
My boring life is a miracle. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-word-stories-show-us-your-hemingways/483715/48 "2009-01-31T00:59:18Z")
I tried. I failed. I wept. Peace eludes me in the night. I move in darkness toward eternity. How am I feeling? Not well. ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-word-stories-show-us-your-hemingways/483715/49 "2009-01-31T01:09:48Z")
Okay, I really like doing these: Did you hear the one about? Jesus Never took the Wheel. RIP. I wish I had told her… Sweet little girl. Ten years gone. In the end, it was over. She turned out fine after all. It’s all over but the dying. I crave you… or a chalupa. “Morning Dew” she called her teardrops… Classic Rocker Seeks Beatles’ Girl Yesterday. He fell asleep one last time. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-word-stories-show-us-your-hemingways/483715/50 "2009-01-31T01:32:16Z")
Funny Sushi menu typo: cucumber warps ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-word-stories-show-us-your-hemingways/483715/51 "2009-01-31T01:41:01Z")
No es guacamole. Es muy caliente. [per a Reader’s Digest story, this was printed on a small card at a Chinese buffet/sushi bar in a primarily Spanish-speaking neighborhood. It was over the wasabi.] ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-word-stories-show-us-your-hemingways/483715/52 "2009-01-31T01:52:37Z")
Turns out the Mayans were right. The last man on Earth tripped. “Activate the Large Hadron Collider! Oops!” “I do!”, she said. He fled. I pushed the shiny red button. _And this one’s for Pastor Ted Haggard:_ Boy meets girl. Boy prefers boys. ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-word-stories-show-us-your-hemingways/483715/53 "2009-01-31T16:08:31Z")
The doctors aren’t telling me everyth… Two tickets. Never used. Never discarded. One photograph, faded. One hope, alive. Last ticket… mine! Fantastic! The Hindenburg! He was a lion tamer. Was. My kings. Her aces. Lost everything. Some film for tomorrow, Mr Zapruder? Waited nineteen years. One kiss. Mistake. Experiment: FAILED. New attempt: Earth 2. Tough work, making crosses. Some Nazarene? Blood looks so different at night. Got the contract! Sistine Chapel floor! ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-word-stories-show-us-your-hemingways/483715/54 "2009-01-31T16:56:00Z")
Message board posting made him rich. ---
**Author:** ![1stFusilier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/58956e/32.png) [@1stFusilier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1stFusilier)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-word-stories-show-us-your-hemingways/483715/55 "2009-01-31T20:40:43Z")
Dreams end. His woman came back. Last candle lit. Last breath out. Dark, solitary confinement. A foetal ecstacy. ---
**Author:** ![1stFusilier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/58956e/32.png) [@1stFusilier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1stFusilier)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-word-stories-show-us-your-hemingways/483715/56 "2009-01-31T21:15:17Z")
One from Michael Marra. Scottish wordsmith. Scribbled down drunk but posted sober. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-word-stories-show-us-your-hemingways/483715/57 "2009-01-31T21:26:34Z")
Big Bang. Dinosaurs. Meteorite. Evolution. SDMB. (thank you, I’m here all week!) ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-word-stories-show-us-your-hemingways/483715/58 "2009-01-31T21:28:06Z")
The winning ticket. Viva la lotto! Who am I? The amnesiac’s tale. Apologies, I’m drunk as a skunk. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-word-stories-show-us-your-hemingways/483715/59 "2009-01-31T21:45:25Z")
Epitaph: Told you I was sick. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Baine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Baine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baine)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2009, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-word-stories-show-us-your-hemingways/483715/60 "2009-01-31T21:56:59Z")
It’s impossible! Wait, no it isn’t. The enemy, you see, is us. He didn’t realize he was dead. He didn’t realize it was earth. It could have been longer. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-word-stories-show-us-your-hemingways/483715.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/six-word-stories-show-us-your-hemingways/483715.md?page=4)