Do 250 Word Articles Work?

Cropped image of Gettysburg AddressWhat does 250 words look like? Can you really state your case on an important topic and get to the heart of matter in a measly 250 words?

Here’s a little “diddy” from a pretty fair writer with the first name of Abe.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

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