A New Exercise

I've had this idea for awhile: write a 6-word short story from a photograph. You know, find a story in the image and tell it.

So here we go. This is a photograph I saw this afternoon in a gallery of Thanksgiving photos at Slate.com. This image was shot by Erich Hartmann in New York City, in 1961, during a Thanksgiving dinner at a homeless shelter. I'm going to try to write a story (in the "comments" section) inspired by the photograph, but I'm not kidding myself here: this image needs no words to tell the story; the photographer has already said all there is to be said.

Happy Thanksgiving.