Not Quite What I Was Planning : And Other Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Ob - Larry Smith, HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Deceptively simple and surprisingly addictive, Not Quite What I Was Planning is a thousand glimpses of humanity--six words at a time. One Life. Six Words. What's Yours? When Hemingway famously wrote, &quot,For Sale: baby shoes, never worn,&quot, he proved that an entire story can be told using a half dozen words. When the online storytelling magazine SMITH asked readers to submit six-word memoirs, they proved a whole, real life can be told this way too. The results are fascinating, hilarious, shocking, and moving. From small sagas of bittersweet romance (&quot,Found true love, married someone else&quot,) to proud achievements and stinging regrets (&quot,After Harvard, had baby with crackhead&quot,), these terse true tales relate the diversity of human experience in tasty bite-sized pieces. From authors Jonathan Lethem and Richard Ford to comedians Stephen Colbert and Amy Sedaris, to ordinary folks around the world, everyone has a six-word story to tell.