Hemingway Challenge (six-word story)
Mailer's contribution to a six-word-story challenge modeled on Hemingway's 'For Sale. Baby Shoes. Never Used.': 'Satan — Jehovah, fifteen rounds. A Draw.'
Mailer’s contribution to Black Book’s “Hemingway Challenge,” in which twenty-five writers offered original fiction in exactly six words, modeled on Hemingway’s “For Sale. Baby Shoes. Never Used.” Mailer’s entry distills his lifelong theology of a contested universe into a prizefight: “Satan — Jehovah, fifteen rounds. A Draw.”