Not Quite What I Was Planning Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure Chapter One After Harvard, had baby with crackhead. --Robin Templeton Seventy years, few tears, hairy ears. --Bill Querengesser Watching quietly from every door frame. --Nicole Resseguie Catholic school backfired. Sin is in! --Nikki Beland Savior complex makes for many disappointments. --Alanna Schubach Nobody cared, then they did. Why? --Chuck Klosterman Some cross-eyed kid, forgotten then found. --Diana Welch She said she was negative. Damn. --Ryan McRae Born in the desert, still thirsty. --Georgene Nunn A sake mom, not soccer mom. --Shawna Hausman I asked. They answered. I wrote. --Sebastian Junger No future, no past. Not lost. --Matt Brensilver Extremely responsible, secretly longed for spontaneity. --Sabra Jennings Joined Army. Came out. Got booted. --Johan Baumeister Not Quite What I Was Planning Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure . Copyright © by Larry Smith. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold. Excerpted from Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure by Rachel Fershleiser, Larry Smith All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.
