we have six words for you

Today we wrote six-word stories while sitting in our cafe. Pyper {Abby's 4th-grade sister and our newest rooftop writer} joined us and shared an abridged {shortened} adaptation of Cinderella that she'd written {she is typing it up as we speak and will post it here very soon} and then we challenged ourselves to write even shorter versions of Cinderella: Cinderella in six words, to be exact!

Pyper groaned and looked at me like "you've gotta be kidding me" and Abby who is used to my crazy challenges just had a big smile on her face as she watched her little sister's shock. But then Pyper was struck with sudden inspiration and we all got to work!

Here are our six-word stories :: enjoy!!

6 word stories Cinderella and more
(abby)
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Once upon a time Cinderella's life....
(abby)
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No shoes until the shoe fits.
:: c ::
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Once upon a time long ago!
::
pyper!
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Cinderella's life good but then bad....
(abby)
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Cinderella looked good at the ball!
::
pyper!
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Cinderella never got the way, but.....
(abby)
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Dream clean dance run search love
:: c ::
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Cinderella and the prince love eachother
{this one's actually 7 words but
that’s ok!! each other = 2 words}
::
pyper!
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Fairytale end hard work happily ever--
:: c ::
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Life for Cinderella ended, just right
(abby)
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Cinderella had a good, bad life!
::
pyper!
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Endings are always crazy, and perfect
(abby)
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I cannot find my shoe!
(abby)
{technically 5 words, but.........
so good! and it actually happened
Abby lost her shoe as she was writing
these stories! lol isn’t that appropriate?!}
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Ok! Now it’s your turn, write some six-word stories and share them with Writing from the Rooftops as a comment, we’d love to read them and post some of your sixwords!!!

write soon!

(abby)
pyper!
:: c ::

By the way......

In case you were wondering where we got the idea to do six-word stories, the original six-word story was written by the famous writer Ernest Hemingway, it is said that he thought this was the best story he ever wrote. This is his story:

For sale: baby shoes, never used.

:: oh ya! find us posting six-words, haiku & more on twitter @rooftop_writing ::



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