The Incredible 6 Word Memoir

So, Jen-nay tagged me for my very first meme (cue the awwwws, I’m sure). The details:

Legend has it that Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in only six words. His response? “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” Last year, SMITH Magazine re-ignited the recountre by asking readers for their own six-word memoirs. They sent in short life stories in droves, from the bittersweet (”Cursed with cancer, blessed with friends”) and poignant (”I still make coffee for two”) to the inspirational (”Business school? Bah! Pop music? Hurrah”) and hilarious (”I like big butts, can’t lie”).

Mine:

Hardest-working slacker in … sigh, whatever.

(I realize that “hardest-working,” with its hyphenation, should really be counted as one word, but it seemed unseemly to claim one-word status for it when it takes up so much room and the project was to be as succinct as possible.)

Being so new to the blogosphere that I don’t have any interweb friends who haven’t done this meme already, I’ll pass on the tagging more people, if you don’t mind. (Please don’t mind.)

2 Comments so far

  1. jen-nay on April 7th, 2008

    I like, I like.

  2. Matt on April 9th, 2008

    Hi, randomly came here through a friend’s site. I like this. Unfortunately, this sort of six-word memoir inspires the dark, depressing, sorts of upwellings in me.

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