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oceanchild (profile) wrote,
on 11-22-2009 at 10:44pm
The shortest story that Hemingway ever wrote (and probably also the saddest) was only six words:

For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.
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electrofucker

11-23-09 9:55am

I've always loved that.

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godessalthena

11-23-09 8:52pm

I think his story about the banana fish is really sad too :( are all his stories like that?

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oceanchild

Re: , 11-24-09 3:18am

I haven't read the one about the banana fish, but I have definitely gotten a general air of melancholy from Hemingway. It seems like his writing is always about what might have been.

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