6 word memoir

After hearing about this on the radio I finally picked up a copy to check it out. Smith Magazine held a contest to submit a 6 word memoir. There was such an overwhelming response they published the entries in a book called "Not Quite What I was Planning."

The official book description reads - "Deceptively simple and surprisingly addictive, Not Quite What I was Planning is a thousand glimpses of humanity - 6 words at a time."

Some of my favorites are:
"catholic school backfired. Sin is in!" - Nikki Beland

"Always working on the next chapter." - Milan Pham

"Followed white rabbit. Became black sheep." - Gabrielle Maconi

"Even the quietest sounds make noise." - Paul Boggan

What would yours be?

choose your own adventure

Choose your own adventure books. For some reason I wikipedia'd them today and discovered this entry about one called Inside UFO 54-40. This is an excerpt from the wikipedia entry:

"One book, Inside UFO 54-40, revolved around the search for a paradise that no one can actively reach; one of the pages in the book describes the player finding the paradise and living happily ever after, although none of the choices in the book led to that page. The ending could only be found by disregarding the rules and going through the book at random. Upon finding the ending, the reader is congratulated for realizing how to find paradise."

It's sort of existential for a children's book series! It's intriguing. Makes you wonder how many people figured it out and what lesson they took away.