Saturday, February 3, 2024

Hemingway happiness, horrors and places to visit - and a six word story challenge

 


Hemingway House

The top Hemingway attraction is the museum at Key West. He had a menagerie of animals. Including the famous Hemingway cats. He also travelled around the world.

Hemingway History & Books

I saw a film based on a Hemingway book about a soldier who falls in love with a nurse. The whole things made no sense. After reading that the author himself fell in love with a nurse, but she later married somebody else, and that Hemingway was recruited as a spy, this unlikely jumbled work of supposed fiction turns out to be based on fact and makes more sense.

I had also wondered why Hemingway was honoured by a statue in Cuba. Now I know he lived there and was honoured.  Although he met Castro only once, they admired each other.

Hemingway\s house answers some queetions and poses others. He killed animals but kept many animals. For examples, six toed cats renamed Hemingway cats.

Travel Landmarks to Look For, For Hemingway Fans







Whether you are amazed and awed or appalled, you cannot help being interested in Hemingway. As a writer I love the story about the six word story challenge. He is often quoted as having answered this challenge, but during his lifetime it was not recorded, and it was found  to have been used years earlier by others. 

The Six Word Story Challenge

The challenge is, write A novel summed up in six words? For sale, baby shoes, never worn. 

I could easily write another similar to that. For sales, small gun, used once.

Alternatively

For sale, gun, one careful owner.

Gun. Used once. One careless owner.

For sale. Gun and five bullets.

For sale, small house, distress sale.

Discount, murder victim's ouse for sale.

Missing millionaire's house for wale. Executors.

For sale. Wedding dress. Never worn.

For sale. Wedding dress. Worn twice.

What about a five word story.

For sale. Diary. Christmas gift. Unused..

For sale. Thirties car. Never driven.

For sale. Wooden coffin. Not needed.

For sale. Left shoes. Never worn. 

For sale, tomb, book cancer recovery.

For sale, fake banknotes, offers invited.

Missing, fiance named John, numerous aliases.

Wanted. Man with machinegun. Don't approach.

For sale. Titanic lifeboat. Not seaworthy.

Discount. Groom's outfit with bullet holes.

For sale smiling Mummy. Maybe fake.

For sale,haunted church, empty graveyard.

Clothes for quadruplets, or four twins.

Identical twins seek part time work.

Heminsgway's home in Florida, USA

Statue of Hemingway in Cuba

Maybe you can pick up some moere six word story ideas or title on your travels.

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