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Deceptively simple and surprisingly addictive, Not Quite What I Was Planning is a thousand glimpses of humanity—six words at a time.
One Life. Six Words. What's Yours?
When Hemingway famously wrote, "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn," he proved that an entire story can be told using a half dozen words. When the online storytelling magazine SMITH asked readers to submit six-word memoirs, they proved a whole, real life can be told this way too. The results are fascinating, hilarious, shocking, and moving.
From small sagas of bittersweet romance ("Found true love, married someone else") to proud achievements and stinging regrets ("After Harvard, had baby with crackhead"), these terse true tales relate the diversity of human experience in tasty bite-sized pieces. From authors Jonathan Lethem and Richard Ford to comedians Stephen Colbert and Amy Sedaris, to ordinary folks around the world, everyone has a six-word story to tell.
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SMITH Magazine founding editor Larry Smith has worked as an editor at Men's Journal, ESPN: The Magazine, and Might. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Popular Science, on Salon.com, and many other places. Larry lives in New York City
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Not Quite What I Was Planning
Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and ObscureBy Larry SmithHarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
Copyright ©2008 Larry SmithAll right reserved.
ISBN: 9780061374050
Chapter One
After Harvard, had baby with crackhead.
—Robin Templeton
Seventy years, few tears, hairy ears.
—Bill Querengesser
Watching quietly from every door frame.
—Nicole Resseguie
Catholic school backfired. Sin is in!
—Nikki Beland
Savior complex makes for many disappointments.
—Alanna Schubach
Nobody cared, then they did. Why?
—Chuck Klosterman
Some cross-eyed kid, forgotten then found.
—Diana Welch
She said she was negative. Damn.
—Ryan McRae
Born in the desert, still thirsty.
—Georgene Nunn
A sake mom, not soccer mom.
—Shawna Hausman
I asked. They answered. I wrote.
—Sebastian Junger
No future, no past. Not lost.
—Matt Brensilver
Extremely responsible, secretly longed for spontaneity.
—Sabra Jennings
Joined Army. Came out. Got booted.
—Johan Baumeister
Continues...
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