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Signing on the Line by
100
(194 Stories)

Prompted By Good Trouble

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In violation of the law, the ads were "segregated" ... Someone had to do something, we agreed, but what?
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The Great Pretender by
200
(302 Stories)

Prompted By Theater

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Inspired by John Zussman's republishing his story from the 2017 prompt "Let's Put On a Show."
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The Show by
25
(26 Stories)

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One of the mothers made these costumes. Yes, I still have mine.
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Time Stopped by
25
(40 Stories)

Prompted By Time

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Sometimes, as in the case of my high school math class, time stopped.
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Moments of Glory by
200
(359 Stories)

Prompted By Valentine's Day

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I am an inveterate romantic. Dan teases that I weep at Hallmark commercials. He’s not wrong. I am sentimental. I save everything. I have a dried sprig of flowers from my wedding bouquet, pressed into my Bride’s Book. I have a long memory, for good and bad. Dan can make grand gestures when he chooses…
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A Trip to the Tot Lot, 1974 by
200
(298 Stories)

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We have been friends since that fateful day when we both decided to take a walk to the park at the same time.
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Driving in snow by
10
(15 Stories)

Prompted By Snowy Days

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This is the only place I have ever lived where any decent snowstorm causes people to panic and abandon their cars all over the streets.
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Confessions of a Recovering Film Critic by
25
(29 Stories)

Prompted By Fame

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I never asked to be a movie critic. And yet it happened. People don’t believe me when I say this; they assume movie reviewing is such a plum job that I must have scrambled and hustled to get there. Not really. In 1991 I’d been working at the San Francisco Chronicle seven years when the…
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Cruisin’ for Burgers and Broads by
200
(359 Stories)

Prompted By Camp

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The summer before my senior year in college I worked as a counselor at a Jewish overnight camp near Ann Arbor, MI called Camp Tamarack. I was assigned to a cabin in the Pioneer Girls, the oldest girls at the camp. The group was situated a little away from the main camp. There was no…
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Blue on Blue by
50
(90 Stories)

Prompted By Baby Books

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Once an art teacher had given our class a homework assignment to collect photos for a collage, including a baby picture. When I’d asked my mom for one, she’d told me my baby pictures had been lost in a flood; yet, here they are.
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