Humanity Woke Up [Story #8]

This is a short one, so let me give you a little background…

The structure of the story itself is inspired by the six-word story written (purportedly) by Ernest Hemingway. The story goes like this:

For sale: baby shoes, never worn. 

Powerful, right?

I don’t pretend to put myself on the same playing field as Hemingway (or whoever actually wrote that story–the authorship is uncertain), but I did give the abbreviated story thing a shot. Here’s what I came up with:

Humanity woke up and draped Love over its shoulders.
The clamoring newspapers fell silent.

I made several iterations of this story and this is the one I like best. Maybe you’d like to take a stab at the abbreviated short story? I wrote mine with fourteen words, but maybe you can do ten? Or even five? I’d love to hear what you come up with.

Kate Bitters is a freelance writer, marketer, and author of Elmer Left and Ten Thousand Lines. She is writing a story a week in 2015-2016 on the Bitter Blog. Subscribe to follow her journey.

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Kate Bitters is a Minneapolis-based author and freelance writer. She is the author of Elmer Left, Ten Thousand Lines, and He Found Me. One of her proudest/nerdiest moments was when Neil Gaiman read one of her short stories on stage at the Fitzgerald Theater.