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Slight tangent but if you love short stories then you'll probably like the famous "6 worded story" by Ernest Hemingway. Unbelievable that he could write such an emotional story in 6 words. If you haven't read it - it's here:

“For sale: baby shoes, never worn."

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This wasn't Hemingway. It's been traced back to several newspapers from the early 1900s.

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/28/baby-shoes/

Here's a collection of modern-day 6-word memoirs: http://www.smithmag.net/sixwords/

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