Six-Word Search: “Away”
Summer is the time to get away: from work, school, or even ourselves. Yet even the summer eventually fades and passes. People we love move on and drift far away. Soon September is here, and we’re back to running away from responsibilities before everything we’ve gotten away with catches up to us. These SMITH users have ‘a way’ with words, so let their memoirs take you away—because sometimes vacation can be as close to home as hiding under the covers.
Traveling is like running away temporarily.
– It's Just Too Mainstream
Words fluttered away from pen's grasp.
– TheAngstyPoet
My imagination ran away from home.
– Believe
Septembers are too far away now.
– MLEwritergirl
Responsible adult, has running away fantasies.
– KharisJo
A Travel Diary, Six Words at a Time
SMITH community member who goes by the name Miandering is taking six-word memoirs across the world, writing a new one with every country she visits—greeting the likes of Thailand with these six words: "Sticky rice at every meal. Yum."
Like so many of the six-word memoirs, her bite-sized dispatches reflect a rollercoaster ride of emotions and impressions, from "Hidden gems make uninspiring city worthwhile" to "Phnom Penh. Caution: No traffic laws." When she writes, "Brutal history both unspoken and everpresent," I wonder if she's in Laos, Cambodia, or perhaps Myanmar.