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"For sale: baby shoes, never worn." is a six-word story, and one of the most famous examples of flash fiction. Versions of the story date back to the early 1900s, and it was being reproduced and expanded upon within a few years of its initial publication.

The story is popularly misattributed to Ernest Hemingway; this is implausible, as versions of the story first appeared in 1906, when Hemingway was 7 years old, and it was first attributed to him in 1991, 30 years after his death.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

What if snakes on a plane?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

was bird
had friend
he dead

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

When eaten, garlic thins your blood.

Thus making you easier to drink.

[–] [email protected] 111 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Each panel with Hemingway speaking has him saying exactly 6 words.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Couldn't think of any lyrics
No, I never wrote the lyrics
So, I'll just sing any old lyrics
That come to mind, child

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

This song is just
six
words
long
This song is just
six
words
long

I love that it's seven.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You sir are impressively detail oriented

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You are noteworthy for your consistency.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Is it coincidence? I think so.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Transubstantiation remains a reprehensible pseudophilosophical topic.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

His first name should have been chad

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

Chaddest Hemingway