Valentine's Day 2011: Love And Heartbreak Six-Word

Valentine's Day 2011: Love And Heartbreak Six-Word : The line often quoted Tolstoy "All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" seems true in the realm of the heart as well. No wonder then that some of the most moving memoirs Six-Word among the over 400,000 who have been divided on SMITH Magazine is about love and its closest companion, grief. Entire volumes are found under "home wrecker Teen. Lack still her child," "The war has destroyed her heart and mine," the ex-wife and the contractor now have house. “You just have to create your own history of these bits of narrative in six words, and those presented here in this slideshow - its part of the pleasure of form in six words.

Sometimes it is good to know the whole situation, though. At an exhibition we have on Valentine S Day  at NYC's 92Y Tribeca you can hear the "stories behind the stories in six words" Deborah Copaken Kogan (Shutterbabe), Elizabeth Wurtzel (Prozac Nation), Baratunde Thurston (The Onion, Jack & Jill Politics), Darin Strauss (half-life), former columnist Rachel Sklar HuffPo (now Mediaite.com), Michele Carlo (fish out of the Agua), Sara Barron (people do not raise), and Kimberly Kaye ("The Trouble With Poet" blog.) Instrumentalist Michael Hearst will too be in the house, turning Six-Word Memoirs by really little songs - ever a crowd favorite.

The show ends with a history of slam open hearing. So come with a date or solo, to six, and leave with your heart a little more complete.

You can share your own short love story short grief / in the comments area below or above SMITH Magazine Six Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak project, where we also offer themes in six words Maternal, digital life, happiness, and many others.