The Shortest Story

One day Ernest Hemingway was having lunch with friends and they were talking about the importance of writing with brevity.

Hemingway bet everyone at the table ten dollars each that he could craft an entire story in six words.

After the pot was assembled, Hemingway took a napkin and wrote down the following six words:

“For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”

Everyone paid up without saying a word.

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Thanks for reading. This is an old story worth repeating.

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