Six-Word Memoirs same large city. Six-Word Memoirs Six-Word Memoirs is a project founded by the U.S.-based online storytelling magazine "Smith Magazine." Like that publication, "Six-Word Memoirs" seek to provide a platform for storytelling in all its forms. "Smith" was founded January 6, 2006, by Larry Smith and Tim Barko. Taking a cue from novelist Ernest Hemingway, who, according to literary legend, was once challenged to write a short story in only six words, "Smith Magazine" set out to do the same. Hemingway's six-word story read: “.” In November 2006, "Smith's" editors Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser gave the six-word story a personal
Letter of the Six Letter of the Six The Letter of the Six (Romanian: "Scrisoarea celor șase") was an open letter signed in March 1989 by Silviu Brucan, together with five other Romanian Communist Party dignitaries (Gheorghe Apostol, Alexandru Bârlădeanu, Grigore Răceanu, Corneliu Mănescu, and Constantin Pîrvulescu). The six communist politicians met and discussed the letter in parks in Bucharest, in order to prevent the Securitate from hearing the details. They were however, not isolated, but they were followed and had contacts with Soviet, American, British and Romanian intelligence officers and diplomats. The initiative came from Brucan, who discussed the plan with Apostol and