Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words (“For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”) and is said to have called it his best work.
Here’s mine off hand: She jumped into the cold water.
What’s yours? Here are some others.
My story, from the Washington Post Style Invitational a year or so ago:
The first defenestration was an accident.
Fire sale not literal. Sorry pyros.
