What's Your 'Six-Word Memoir'?

Smith Magazine invited writers "famous and obscure" to distill their own life stories into exactly six words. It All Changed in an Instant is the fourth collection of very, very brief life stories from Smith. The tiny memoirs are sometimes sad, often funny — and always concise.

It All Changed in an Instant is full of well-known names — from activist Gloria Steinem ("Life is one big editorial meeting"), to author Frank McCourt ("The miserable childhood leads to royalties"), to actress Molly Ringwald ("Acting is not all I am").

More six-word memoirs from It All Changed in an Instant:

Found on Craigslist: table, apartment, fiance.
- Becki Lee

Alzheimer's: meeting new people every day.
- Phil Skversky

Met wife at her bachelorette party.
- Eddie Matz

I picked passion. Now I'm poor.
- Kathleen E. Whitlock

So would you believe me anyway?
- James Frey

via www.npr.org

I suppose I'd re-purpose my one-line bio - under 5'1 frame, was super tall.