Note: This post is by Cree McCree, a veteran music scribe and author of the diary, Going Home to New Orleans. For more on the Big Easy, see SMITH’s all-true, serialized webcomic, A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge.
Jazz Fest popped my cherry and good when I hit the mud running in 1988 and learned I […]

This arrived by email from contributor (and my new hero) C.C. “Lived like no tomorrow; tomorrow came” Keiser. Count it as many times as you like—six words, 5-7-5 syllables. Pure genius:
Unexpectedly,
however belatedly,
accepted at last!

The most exciting part of this whole crazy ride has been hearing back from you guys about how you like to six. We’ve heard about everything from eulogies to spinning classes. A big theme has been using the six-word concept in schools—literally from kindergarten to grad school. Here are some great student sixers:
Contributor Pam Vissing’s […]

It’s a six, six world. Bloggers keep working the six-word story form in new, wild, wonderful ways—ways that are indeed “not quite what we were planning”—that delight us each day. A blogger named Sarah posts that her neighbor gave her the book as a thank you for looking after his house while he was away. […]

Occasionally, we here at SMITH have a technical difficulty or six. After the six-word memoir book came out about a month ago, our surge in traffic was such that we had to buy more bandwidth, and were thus shut down for an hour or so. Among the first six-word memoirs I saw when the site […]