Once, a few colleauges of the distinguished author Ernest Hemingway(he wrote "The old man and the sea" and "for whom the bell tolls") had a bet with him. They said he couldn't make a story of SIX words. THEY PAID UP. Yeah, he did write a short story comprising just six words. He later claimed that it was his masterpiece. Here it is
For sale: baby shoes, never worn
Thats it. Thats a whole story!!!
At the start, I was really confused. What did it mean. I decided to be Lisbeth Salander and solve it without using google. Needless to say, I used google. (I am South Indian. :P )
The story is, obviously, about a baby. The baby dies, for some reason, a miscarriage maybe, and the only thing that's left is a pair of baby shoes which they had brought, which will now never be worn. It is a story, because it has a protagonist, (a baby), a plot, (the babies death) and even a climax(the shoes never being worn) Now THAT'S a masterpiece!!!
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