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Your Love Life in Six Words

Last year, Smith magazine published a fascinating collection of six-word memoirs, inspired by the one left behind by Hemingway (”For sale: baby shoes, never worn”). On my other blog, I wrote a handful of my own condensed autobiographies. Among them:

-Passionately, I lived, loved, hated, died.

-Wanted to be Bea Arthur. Failed.

-Spent too much time answering phones.

-Read with abandon. Glimpsed God there.

-Met Meryl, but never banged Brody. (Note: Booksnark looooooves him some Adrien Brody. Like, dayum and yum.)

-Alas, I am just too much.*

(*Thanks, Bette Davis. I stole that line from a Barbara Walters interview she once did.)

Now the fine folks over at Smith are at it again, asking writers to describe their love lives in tiny little six-word epics. The results range from hilarious to heartbreaking and are presented in a new book, Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak by Writers Famous and Obscure. Here’s a sampling of some of the entries:

If I get Chlamydia, blame MySpace.
- Hanorah Slocum

Will government ever let us marry?
- Viki Marsh

Silently suffered his facial hair experiments.
- Elizabeth Minkel

Tried men. Tried women. Like cats.
- Dona Bumgarner

Leap of faith. Shit, no parachute.
- Katherine Yunker

Inevitably, his obituary didn’t mention me.
- R. Sue Dodea

Read more and listen to the full story at the NPR website.

Story Source NPR

February 11, 2009 | Filed Under Authors, Biography & Memoir

Comments

4 Responses to “Your Love Life in Six Words”

Lillian King on May 18th, 2010 11:44 am

my neighbor got Chlamydia because he likes to go out with prostitutes. This is a very nasty disease.’”‘
Caitlin Baker on June 20th, 2010 1:17 pm

what brand of baby shoes are good ?,,”
Henry Anderson on July 11th, 2010 1:52 pm

when you are looking for baby shoes, choose those that are made from organic materials.~.
Corey Chapman on July 12th, 2010 11:46 pm

chlamydia can give you lots of painful and itchy moments so always practice safe sex.`;*

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