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The Sandbox

 

The prompt: “Take one of the simple settings below and write a page about it, trying to undermine the reader’s expectations. Try to lead the reader in a different direction by not revealing his desire up front, or by revealing a surprising motivation.”

The setting I chose: “A child raking a sandbox next to his nanny.”


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Night Mirrors

“I think getting to know myself through your eyes has allowed me to expand more than I’d known before - like I can take deeper breaths and feel the air fill every part of me and know that I am here; a solid thing that can hold itself together and contain a gust of wind without floating away.”

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Big

“Timmy’s always been one to follow all the rules – he’s never had any imagination. To him, things have always been done a certain way, and should always be done that way, forever and ever and ever. Sometimes it annoys her, but today it doesn’t.”

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A Friend in Need

“She was hesitant to tell me about the things she was so used to whispering to herself in the dark. I felt like we could be a couple of giggling schoolgirls again, back on the playground, cupping our hands around each other’s ears and throwing conspiratorial glances at the rough boys kicking sand into each other’s eyes.”

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