Prompt #52 — Write Like Donora Hillard

Hilliard’s piece (view here) takes its inspiration, and title, from the genre of tragedy, then considers how or if that genre still exists as a…

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American Tragedy

This lake has a woman’s name. On the drive up here, upstate New York spread out before us like an old wound, she told me…

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Prompt #51 — Write Like Josh Maday

By revisiting the traditional Pinocchio story (view here), Maday embraces a pre-existing narrative and its conventions. In doing so, he gains some advantage—readers are likely…

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Prompt #50 — Write Like Nin Andrews

In, “Why I Love of Angelina” (view here), Nin Andrews one-ups our obsession with a popular actress by turning her into a deity. By doing…

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Why I Love of Angelina

On the island where I grew up, all the women look like Angelina Jolie. The women like to call themselves Angelina in honor of the…

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Prompt #49 — Write Like Amanda Corbin

Here, Corbin transports the Greek gods into the modern Era, and uses them in a humorous commentary on social media. Though, she balances humor and…

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Koinonikos

The god of social media was born after Zeus came in a piece of papyrus featuring an undesirable sketch of his face. I could do…

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Prompt #48 — Write like Benjamin King, Again!

In, “Astronauts under the Sea Dance” (view here), King exposes the strangeness of how people mourn or pay homage to others after times of crisis…

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Astronauts under the Sea Dance

The Challenger Space Shuttle exploded in 1986, just 73 seconds after blast off. Christa McAuliffe, the first member of the Teacher in Space Project, and…

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Prompt #47 — Write Like Benjamin King

In, “Astronauts under the Sea Dance” (view here), King exposes the strangeness of how people mourn or pay homage to others after times of crisis…

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