Not quite what I was planning: Six-word memoirs by writers famous and obscure is a collection of almost 1,000 six-word memoirs. According to Smith Magazine, Hemingway, prompted by a bar room challenge, wrote a story in six words - "Baby shoes for sale, never worn." Smith Magazine recently asked its readers to submit their life story in six words. Some of the six-word memoirs were revealing - "Never should have bought the ring" and "Life should have Reset Game button." Others were about life choices or life styles - "English major. You do the math" and "Proof that potheads can be somebody." And not quite what one reader had planned - "I came out, and was orphaned."

Unleashed: Poems by Writers' Dogs, edited by Amy Hempel and Jim Shepard, is exactly that - poems by writers' dogs. Arthur Miller's dog wrote: "I worry./ I have to because nobody else does." Samantha, Edward Albee's dog, wrote: "They weren't with me/When I was taken in to die."

Putting the two concepts together, my dogs added their two cents and six words. Nellie, investigative reporter extraordinaire, wrote, "Seeking the object of my olfaction." Trooper penned, "I was lost, now I'm found."

What say your dog?

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