One Life, Six Words, What’s Yours?

Hemingway was once bet that he couldn’t produce a story in just six words. He wrote ‘For sale: baby shoes, never worn.’ He won the bet.

But if an entire story can be told in just six words, what about an entire life?

In One Life, Six Words, What’s Yours? hundreds of the famous and not-so famous attempted to do just that, producing six-word summaries of lives lived. Some are heartbreaking (I still make coffee for two; Zak Nelson), others wry (Not quite what I was planning; Summer Grimes) and some rather worrying (I do not intend to mellow; Jeffrey Archer). And over at the Guardian you can join them, creating your own mini-memoir. So far my favourite is Nick Bailey’s ‘Grumpy bastard. Until wife came along.’ What’s yours?