We spent the last month reflecting on what the last year brought us — the good times and the ones that, well, we’re ready to forget. With a new year nearly upon us, it’s now a good time to look ahead and fantasize about what 2024 can be. What do you want to do this year? What’s a New Year’s resolution you’d like to accomplish? Is there something already on the books that you’re looking forward to?

I’d love to know. So, please share a story of what you want to do in the new year with the IJ.

Please make it a story, a personal story, with a beginning, middle and end — not six adjectives, not a cliche and not advice. 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.”

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, no attachments

• Write your short story in the body of the email, no attachments

• Use proper punctuation and spelling

• Use sentence style in one line

Please send to lifestyles@marinij.com by Jan. 19 and look for it in the Jan. 30 lifestyles section and online.