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Line 1: {{work}} {{Infobox book {{quote\| "For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn."}}▼ \| title = Hemingway's Six-Word Story \| author = John deGroot \| central theme = Loss. \| elevator pitch = "Baby's dead" expressed in six words. \| genre = [[Flash Fiction]] \| publication date = 1996 ▲}}{{quote\| "For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn."}} A piece of [[Flash Fiction]] allegedly written by [[Ernest Hemingway]]; however, the oldest known source of it is the 1996 [[Biopic]] play ''[[~~Theater/Papa\|~~Papa]]''. [http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/babyshoes.asp Snopes has more information on it]. ~~----~~ ~~== These words are an example of: ==~~ Being only six words long, the story as reprinted here is both laconic and unabridged. {{tropelist}} * [[Beige Prose]] * [[Downer Ending]] Line 13 ⟶ 21: * [[Nameless Narrative]] * [[Scrapbook Story]]: The format's that of a newspaper classified ad. * [[Subtext]]: Where the substance of the story lies. {{reflist}} [[Category:~~Literature~~{{PAGENAME}}]]▼ [[Category:The Nineties]] [[Category:Lit Fic]] [[Category:~~Hemingway's~~Literature ~~Six~~of ~~Word~~the ~~Story~~1990s]] ▲[[Category:Literature]]