Six Word Stories

Last week I was introduced to “Six Word Stories.”  I guess it began when someone challenged Ernest Hemingway to write a story using only six words.  Heminway responded to the challenge and wrote: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”

This idea fascinated me so I Googled “6 Word Stories” and found out that there are books—(yes, books) containing these 6 word memoirs by famous and obscure writers.  In one article, Stephen King had these words, “Everyone believed he was getting better.”

I was captured by the idea and wondered if I could write stories using 6 words.  I thought of the Biblical characters and came up with these:

Really.  She made me do it.  –Adam

He spoke with a forked tongue.  –Eve

I persuaded.  She ate.  Heh.  Heh.  –the serpent

But she really is my sister.  –Abraham

I came.  I saw.  It spoke.  –Moses

Gold went in.  Calf came out.  –Aaron

She was hot.  I got burned.  –Samson

He wants us to do what?  —Joshua’s soldiers

I cried. He heard. He delivered. –Psalmist

I really thought I knew Him.  –Job

Swallowed by fish.  Saved from drowning.  –Jonah

Size 16EEE.  Still way too small.  –Peter

We had hoped . . . He IS risen!  —Cleopas

Are you bored and have time on your hands?  Try writing some of your own stories with six words.  Better yet, try writing your spiritual journey in six words or less.