The Wrong Words Hemingway was challenged to reduce someone, so he turned them into bar peanuts. The concept of a six-word memoir becomes increasingly absurd and horrifyingly appropriate when stared in the face by life’s brevity. It’s reductive. It’s fast food. It’s self-conscious in the way that I’ve always been. And so I toiled and rewrote them. But what if I miss out? Life is all about the stories. A series of letters to God. Learning how to be well-adjusted. I chewed and spit out my own life in an attempt to make it palatable and it left me feeling empty. Starved. Liz Holman
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