Shake The Dust

Hemingway’s Best Work

scribnerbooks:

In the 1920s, Ernest Hemingway’s colleagues bet him that he couldn’t write a complete story in just six words. His rebuttal?

 

For Sale: baby shoes, never worn.

 

They paid up. Hemingway is said to have considered it his best work.

(via dinguedeshiboux)

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    Another story: Longed for him. Got him. Shit. (Margaret Atwood)

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