For Readers of Short Stories - and Writers Chasing the Magic of Compression (Beyond Neoprene) In the Beginning Was Six Words I’ve stood in the house where Ernest Hemingway was born, Oak Park, Illinois. An almost-too-respectable American home, perfectly preserved. You can still sense the stiff linen and maternal expectations. But what stayed with me wasn’t the legacy of the great man. It was a story from his childhood: how his mother dressed him and his sister identically, in
