"For Sale, Baby shoes, Never worn."
A piercingly dark piece of writing, taking the heart of a Dickens or Dostoevsky novel and carving away all the rest, Ernest Hemingway’s six-word story—fabled forerunner of flash and twitter-fiction—is shorter than many a story’s title.
The six-word story displays the power of literary compression. Coupled with creative portraiture, this project constructs a larger narrative that is leveraged by the subjects' collective participation told through the eye of the artist.