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Hemingway’s Six-Word Flash Fiction Story

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Part of the Hemingway myth goes that he wrote a six-word flash fiction story.

For sale.

Baby shoes.

Never worn.

If this is true the story has the classic form of flash fiction.  There is the setup, the buildup and the payoff.  And as any well-written flash fiction does, it implies a great deal.  It implies that there is a back story that in some way involves a man, a woman and the death of a new-born baby.

That my friends is great flash fiction.

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