Stories on This Week's Writing Prompt
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A Grand, if not Royal, Wedding Portrait
March 5, 1895. That is the caption in my photo album. These are my grandparents, Samuel Sarason and “Lizzie” [...]
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Time in a Bottle
I first saw this photo after my mother died. My oldest sister, who is the repository of all the family photos that my parents [...]
Placerville, 1888 — Galoots in mud boots
I had no idea that part of me had come from this place, a California boardwalk town in the northern Sierras. I’d grown up in [...]
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Breaking the Redwood Curtain: Campus Strike at Humboldt State University
“There was a sense of exhilaration,” my friend Wesley remembers, “a feeling that we were reacting as a group, as one. That [...]
Prompted By Student Activism
Le Monstre de la Mer
“When will we ever get another chance to see a sea monster?” Patti urged, sealing the deal.
Prompted By The Twilight Zone
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