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A horror story in just two words.

submitted by Splooge to 4Chan 3.7 yearsSep 14, 2021 18:36:36 ago (+6/-0)     (files.catbox.moe)

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In the 1920's, Ernest Hemingway's colleagues bet him that he couldn't write a complete story in just six words. They paid up. Hemingway is said to have considered it his best work. A piercingly dark piece of writing, taking the heart of a Dickens or Dostoevsky novel and carving away all the rest, Ernest Hemingway's six-word story -- fabled forerunner of flash-and twitter-fiction -- is shorter than many a story's title:
>For sale: baby shoes, never worn.
In the 2020's women outdone Ernest Hemingway and wrote a complete story in just two words.
>Want someday
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Aze 0 points 3.6 years ago

I really tried to read Moby dick in high-school. Thing was horrible, dull, filled with arcane terms no longer used. I was intelligent to understand it, but not patient enough to enjoy it.