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It's considered one of the single greatest six-word short stories ever written.

For sale, baby shoes never worn.

This shortest of short stories and the tragedy and heartbreak conveyed by it, often attributed to

Ernest Hemingway. He may or may not have written it, but somebody wrote it, and it's a

classic. Now, I don't know if the 40-word short story is a thing, like the six-word short story

is a thing. The six-word short story is a legit literary subgenre. But if the 40-word short story

wasn't a thing, it's a thing now. Because the world's the 40-word short story wasn't a thing, it's a thing now because the world's

greatest 40-word short story was published on Craigslist last week. Under New York, Manhattan,

event gigs, be naked at my sister's wedding. That's just the title. Now the body of the ad.

An instant classic. My sister is having an outdoor wedding in New Canaan, Connecticut in May. I want someone to be naked in the woods and to run

through the wedding in order to ruin it. I will protect you from my family. For sale baby shoes

never worn forces the reader to think about a baby who might not

have lived long enough to wear those shoes and the grief-stricken parents selling those

shoes, which is where our minds go, even though there are other possible explanations for

for sale baby shoes never worn.

Maybe the new parents were given so many pairs of baby shoes

at the baby shower that their child outgrew the pair that's being sold now without

ever having a chance to wear them. But when we don't have all the information, when there

are blank spaces, worst case scenarios rush in to fill the void. We are a catastrophizing species.

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