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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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Distress

You kick me out of the house for the afternoon and tell me to call you when I feel scared about something. “You’re so calm,”…

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Prompt #46 — Write Like Kevin Sampsell

In Sampsell’s “Distress” (view here), we are presented with the scenario of a woman asking a man to call her when he finds himself in…

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Stealing Cherries by Marina Rubin

Stealing Cherries by Marina Rubin Manic D Press Paperback, 93 pages ISBN: 978-1-933149-80-6 I hope I can be forgiven for reading Marina Rubin’s collection of…

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