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"For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn." |
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A piece of Flash Fiction allegedly written by Ernest Hemingway; however, the oldest known source of it is the 1996 Biopic play Papa. Snopes has more information on it.
Tropes used in Hemingway's Six-Word Story include:
- Beige Prose
- Downer Ending
- Fictional Document
- In Medias Res
- Minimalism
- Nameless Narrative
- Scrapbook Story: The format's that of a newspaper classified ad.