Six-Word Memoirs

I across across this clever writing exercise when I was in Portland last month during a Powell's book reading. It's called a Six-Word Memoir, writing your life story in six words. A collection of the online submissions was published called Not Quite What I Was Planning. Go to the Smith Magazine site to see the submissions.

Here are my humble additions:

A thousand stories within. Zero written.

I'll never read through my bookshelf.

Ernest Hemingway's stories make me jealous.

I envy Peter Parker's spider bite.

Wished for the perfect girl. Found her.

It's your turn...