CADET CHALLENGE #1

William Faulkner famously said that a novelist is a failed short story writer, and a short story writer is a failed poet. Hemingway, with his creation of the six-word story, combined poetry and drama into a short form that has grown in popularity while remaining difficult to achieve. Your challenge:  write the best six-word story you can.  Here are a few of the best:  

For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn. —Ernest Hemingway

Longed for him. Got him. Shit. —Margaret Atwood

All those pages in the fire. —Janet Burroway

              The smallest coffins are the heaviest. --Annonymous

               Siri, delete Mom from my contacts.  --Anonymous 

This challenge will close at 0730, Friday, 7 October 2016.  There will be a prize.  Few will enter, one will win.  My selection will be based on originality and style.

A cadet (who needs a shave) with writer's block.