Unemployment rose and Lindsay Lohan is still broke (and in rehab), but your Six-Word Memoirs continued to flow. Here are six six-worders we love from the week ending August 20. Click on each author’s name to check out more memoirs.

Best Wordplay: “Made first million mistakes before 30.” —Steve Anthony
Most Lovely Yet Hearbreaking: “Laying with you but sleeping alone.”—1111pm (profile image, above)
Most Outrageous: “My third-grader is romancing hot mom.” —Ctgoods2
Most Meta: “Filthy Minds. Stupid Mistakes. We’re Teenagers.” —Barbiebre, from SMITHTeens
Least Mincing of Words: “My life: Eat, shit, fuck, sleep.” —StupidAngMo
Most Universal: “Beat depression. Now I love others.” —Buffyfan5, from our new six-word project, Six Words on Pain & Hope, with the nonprofit, To Write Love on Her Arms.

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