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I’ve seen a few people mention Hemmingway’s 6-word story in the last year, which I hadn’t heard of before. The story is:

For sale: baby shoes, never worn

There’s a flickr group for 6-word stories, though most of them aren’t too good. Wired had an article in which they asked a bunch of different writers to try writing 6-word stories. There are quite a few… some of them are quite amusing, though most of them seem like summaries instead of stories.

I wonder if there’s a minimum length a piece of text must have for it to be copyrighted…