flash fiction: get to the point

I'm scanning the results of a recent six-word meme rebirthed thanks to Wired Magazine. I first saw the results in print (how old-school!), and now am seeing it crawl around the sites I visit

The archetypal flash fiction is attributed to Ernest Hemingway in the brilliant little ditty:

For sale: baby shoes, never worn.

Maybe I need to cut down on the length of my posts here.