Writing a Story — 12

You decided to write a story for an international student magazine. The story must contain the following sentence:

"For sale: baby shoes, never worn."*

You can use this sentence in any part of your story, but you cannot make any changes to the sentence itself.

Write 200–250 words.

*This “six-word novel” is often attributed to Ernest Hemingway. They say that sometime in the ‘20s Hemingway was having lunch with some other writers and made a ten-dollar bet that he could write a novel in six words. After penning the famous line on a napkin, he passed it around the table, and collected his winnings.