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Fourteen-year-old Athan is appearing in a play -- but he isn't entirely acting. A student at Woodland Hills, he's a co-author of PUSHED, a production based in part on his own experiences. "I made my ...

As a founding editor of SMITH Magazine in 2006, Larry Smith proposed the idea of six-word memoirs as one way for people to express their life stories. The memoirs were meant as interpretations and ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. It’s remarkable how much can be packed into just six words. Inspired by ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Smith Magazine’s six-word memoirs have been lodged in the literary ...

Following two earlier “six-word memoir” titles, this addition collects supersuccinct memoirs written by teenagers (who are identified by their first names and last initials). Like graffiti scrawls on ...

Listeners comment on telling the truth and write in with some of their own six-word memoirs. Also, a welcome to station WHQR.