"For sale: Baby shoes, never worn." Hemingway supposedly wrote this to win a bet, but whether the story is true or not, it's harder to think of a more difficult task than writing something with maximum brevity and a paucity of prose. Hint Fiction is the name of an anthology of leading writers (some well-known, some not) that captures compelling and constricted fiction that's 25 words or less, in honor of Hemingway's heartbreaking tweet of a tale. To me, it's more fun to make your own attempts, so here are my first two first-draft no-editing attempts: "I pulled the strands taut and started cutting, doleful yet exhilarated, each shorn clump a preemptive strike. 'Timetables,' I thought, 'are for those with time.'" "We laid together by the stereo light, aggressively not kissing each other, another darkened failure of summer’s promise. Me, I never wanted Disintegration to end." Try it yourself...it's frustrating fun!