Check Out The New Stories by Greenwood Writers

As some of you know, I teach creative writing as well as being an author. I love teaching. It is the second great love of my life. So I was really taken when I came across a Huff Post article by Sara Roncero-Menendez about writers who tell entire stories in six words.This isn’t a new thing. It’s been around for decades.

Some say it began with Ernest Hemingway’s masterpiece—“For sale: baby shoes, never worn”—but it’s new to me, and it’s fairly new to Reddit and Tumbler.

I decided to ask my Facebook followers to submit their stories. What I got is a number of wonderful tales.

 

AUTHORS SHARE THEIR STORIES

• These substances: once me. No longer.   D.J. Stipe
• Life without love—what’s the point?   Tim Cocker
• but not forgotten, because i write       Elizabeth Ward Pabst
• Negative words planted, produce toxic fruit    Debbie Cocker Rosales
• I jumped, I pulled, chute failed.  Heath Langle
• Your life depends. Heart Begs. Breathe.   Laura Lee Brennan
• Designer cologne helped mask the fear.   Gil Tisnado
• SIN stands for self-inflicted nonsense.   Alan Dolit
• Loveliness here missed. Eternal Angelic company.   Sheryl Saturnino

My own:

Your skin, whisper soft, soon gone.

 

NEW FABULOUS  SIX-WORD STORIES

• Crash, helicopter, hospital, intensive care, dead. Jeanine DeBerry
• Lake Tahoe in rearview mirror. Freedom.
• Thinking outside the box. Living outside. Two tales by Joann Eisenbrandt

Thanks to all who participated.

In future, I’ll ask my students to write their six-word memoirs, although story subjects can include such things as race, love, sexual orientation, class, religion and gender.

Post your stories in any category to my Facebook page, www.facebook.com/authorjochandler