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The (Urban) Legend of Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Story: "For sale, Baby shoes, Never worn.” | Open Culture

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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.

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