Ready for your 15 minutes of fame?

Share a tale of a brush with fame or what you'd want to be famous for

“In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15minutes.”

This oft-repeated quote became Andy Warhol's most well-known statement, although some believe the celebrated artist never actually said it.

No matter who did, in this celebrity-driven culture, nobodies often become somebodies for truly random reasons.

What about you? Have you had your 15minutes of fame? If you desire to be famous, what would you want to be famous for?

For May, please share a six-word story about your brush with fame. Please make it a story with a beginning, middle and end — not six adjectives. Make us laugh or cry or at the very least feel something. For an example, here is the famous story attributed to, but not proven to be written by, Ernest Hemingway: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” That's quite the story!

If you want your story to run in the IJ, please:

• Write “Six-word story” in the subject line

• Send one story. Just one

• Include your full name and Marin town in the body of the email

• Write your short story in the body of the email

• Use proper punctuation, spelling

• Use sentence style in one line

• It does not need to rhyme and ideally shouldn't

• Do not submit six adjective

Send to lifestyles@marinij.com by May 20. Look for it in the May 31 lifestyles section and online.