Prompt #29 — Write Like Jenny Gillespie

We usually consider diamond shopping an emotional event, often, though not necessarily, linked to a marriage proposal. In Gillespie’s piece (view story here), this event takes on a quotidian quality that is somewhat unexpected.

PROMPT

Write a story in which someone has grown tired and bored with something we usually consider sensational—the obstetric nurse who is no longer excited by the miracle of childbirth, the superhero who tires of being heroic, the consultant whose work trips to New York dull the city’s glamor.