Ernest Hemingway was a masterful writer, celebrated for his simplistic and direct writing style. The Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author is most famous for his novels and short stories. However, he is also widely associated with the apocryphal six-word story:
For sale: Baby shoes, never worn.
Whether Hemingway actually wrote this famous flash fiction doesn’t matter—the story itself is a powerful reminder that a great story can be small but say and mean so much more.
A great story doesn’t require action-packed adventures in exotic locales. Nor does it need to
include life-saving heroics or grand deeds. A great story can be incredibly short. Quiet. Subtle. And perhaps even overlooked.
Our lives, too, are stories. Some are long. Some are short. Some are grand. Others, unknown.
Just know that however your story unfolds, it is beautiful, powerful, and magnificent in its own
unique way.
-Ryan Peterson
I love every bit of this! Thank you for sharing!
All of our stories are worthy, all of them matter! Thank you, Ryan, for this beautiful reminder–as direct and succinct as Hemingway’s own style, but in your own unique voice. Hallelujah!
warmly, Rev. Nancy