115. Black and Blue: Write about a time you’ve been physically hurt. Soon after I was installed as a fresh-faced Clubmate in Saipan, a tropical storm rolled over the island. Most of the other Clubmates were recent college graduates wrapped in youth invincibility delusion, so my comrades who weren’t working piled into a jeepney to […]
114. Neighbors: Make up a story or poem about your next door neighbor. Our neighbor is a 30-something woman who says her career is in customer service and I guess she gets to work from home because I never see her leave the house at commuting time. She has a constant stream of highly attractive
113. Staircase: Use a photo of a staircase or the stairs in your home or a building you love to inspire you. Tiktok creator Emlyn Pearce says his friend thinks of stairs as a bunch of tiny little floors all bunched together and maybe they want to be real floors but they become these kind of
112. Rushing: Write about moving quickly and doing things fast. When the kids were in the house, there was always too much to do and I had to figure out how to juggle it all. I disliked most chores but they still needed to be done so I devised schedules to fool myself into doing
111: Questions: Write about questions you have for the universe. Optional: include an answer key. The time scale needed for the Big Bang to happen from the bang to the first steps of evolution is too vast to understand. What actually happened? What’s out in the universe now? How do black holes and worm holes
