Stories in 6 words

When two times three is a novel.

While I’ve been working on three word mercies, I’ve also been thinking about other short forms of writing. One interesting form increases the limit from 3 words to 6. While still a strong limitation, there’s more room for motion with 6 words: room, perhaps, for a full story arc. There’s a popular legend that Earnest Hemingway, in response to a bet with …