“Tell me a story…”

Ernest Hemingway is credited with writing the first ever six-word short story, or flash fiction:
 
 “For sale: baby shoes, never worn”.
 
In my installation at the Macrobert arts centre, “ Tell me a story” I have two current examples of local contemporary flash fiction.
 
Laura Fyfe (pictured) is an established writer and teacher.


Life
She lived
Shit happened
She died
 
 
Meanwhile my youngest contributor to the project wrote:
 
   Cat and dog story
“Once upon a time there was cat and a dog.
 The dog ate the cat.  
And he lived happily ever after.”
Rebecca, age 9, Stirling
 
 
What both have in common with Hemingway is that they have told a short story in few words.
 It’s quite a challenge. Try it.