Six-word stories: Share with the IJ a short tale of what freedom means to you
Well, it happened. The Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, restricting a woman’s right to control her own body. And if Justice Clarence Thomas has his way, people may lose their right to obtain contraceptives and same-sex couples may lose their right to marry.
And here we are, about to mark the Fourth of July, a celebration of our freedom — just when our freedom has been taken from us.
So it seems appropriate to talk about freedom, in six words.
Please make it a story with a beginning, middle and end — not six adjectives. Make us laugh or cry or at the very least feel something. For an example, here is the famous story attributed to, but not proven to be written by, Ernest Hemingway: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” That’s quite the story!
If you want your story to run in the IJ, please:
• Write “Six-word story” in the subject line
• Send one story. Just one
• Include your full name and Marin town in the body of the email
• Write your short story in the body of the email
• Use proper punctuation and spelling
• Use sentence style in one line
• It does not need to rhyme and ideally shouldn’t
• Do not submit six adjectives — that’s not a story
Send to lifestyles@marinij.com by July 15. Look for it in the July 26 lifestyles section and online.