my life in just six words
Could you write the story of your life in just six words? That’s what participants in SMITH magazine’s six-word memoirs project did. The result is a book filled with six-word stories by famous and obscure writers. Some of my particular favorites are:
I like girls. Girls like boys. (Andrea Dela Cruz)
My life’s a bunch of almosts. (Shari Bonnin)
Just in: boyfriend’s gay. Merry Christmas. (Seshie Hargett)
Born bald. Grew hair. Bald again. (A.J. Jacobs)
Surname rhymes with profanity. Childhood torture. (Noah Smit)
But all of them are funny or poignant and some so succinct that you can see a life’s worth of events and emotions behind them. Did I contribute? Of course. And I invite everyone who reads this to have a go!
Sorted life, met world, completely lost. (Purple Dragon)
