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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] 64 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

You sir are impressively detail oriented

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

You are noteworthy for your consistency.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Is it coincidence? I think so.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

Transubstantiation remains a reprehensible pseudophilosophical topic.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

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

I love that it's seven.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

was bird
had friend
he dead

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

His first name should have been chad

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

Chaddest Hemingway

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

When eaten, garlic thins your blood.

Thus making you easier to drink.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

What if snakes on a plane?