Newspaper

Draft a post with three parts, each unrelated to the other, but create a common thread between them by including the same item — an object, a symbol, a place — in each part. A man was reading the newspaper while waiting at the door of the district attorney. I noticed...

Learning

Write about your strongest memory of heart-pounding, belly-twisting nervousness: what caused the adrenaline? Was it justified? How did you respond? My boss sent me to the city council to write a piece about a polemic session that was going to take place very late. It...

Darkness in the courtroom

Write about anything you’d like, but make sure the post includes this sentence:“I thought we’d never come back from that one.” As a reporter I had to attend to a trial against two dangerous felons in the old court-house of my city. Both had been convicted of murder...

The debt

Open your nearest book to page 82. Take the third full sentence on the page, and work it into a post somehow. It is the last proof, and all is now only too clear. (The Lord of the rings J.R.R.Tolkien) Mark rang the door bell of the apartment to check if Marisa, the...
The lost ring

The lost ring

While walking on the beach you stumble on a valuable object buried in the sand — say, a piece of jewelry or an envelope full of cash. What do you do with it? Under what circumstances would you keep it? I actually found once a ring on the floor in my street. It was a...
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