A pierc­ing­ly dark piece of writ­ing, tak­ing the heart of a Dick­ens or Dos­to­evsky nov­el and carv­ing away all the rest, Ernest Hemingway’s six-word story—fabled fore­run­ner of flash- and twitter-fiction—is short­er than many a story’s title: For sale, Baby shoes, Nev­er worn. The extreme terse­ness in this ellip­ti­cal tragedy has made it a favorite exam­ple of writ­ing … Con­tin­ue read­ing The (Urban) Leg­end of Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Sto­ry: “For sale, Baby shoes, Nev­er worn.”