Ernest Hemingway, so I’ve been told, was once challenged to submit a short story using a minimal quantity of words.
After a brief consideration he allegedly marked a 6-word ad in a current newspaper: “Baby shoes for sale. Slightly used.”
It was indeed a short synopsis of somebody’s tragedy.
Please provide a similar example, not necessarily shorter and not necessarily sad.
In 1917, William R. Kane published a piece in a periodical called The Editor where he outlined the basic idea of a grief-stricken woman who had lost her baby and even suggested the title of Little Shoes, Never Worn.[2] In his version of the story, the shoes are being given away rather than sold. He suggests that this would provide some measure of solace for the owner, as it would mean that another baby would at least benefit directly.
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