Since 2015 Retrospect has offered weekly prompts for writers to “think back and share forward” your life stories, memories, thoughts, joys, and sorrows. By publishing stories and comments over these years we have built a thriving community of readers and writers.
Now Retrospect is taking a new turn offering no new prompts, but rather the ability to read past stories from our large archive by searching author’s name or subject, AND the chance to write and publish more new stories of your own.
For inspiration see the list of past prompts, then think back and share forward your Writer’s Choice story!
Resistance is hardly an abstract concept to toddlers being put down to nap, teenagers who’ve been grounded, or grown-ups told of needed surgery.
What kind of resistance have you put up to perceived injustices — as a child, as an adolescent, or as an adult protesting social injustice? Perhaps you’ve resisted exploring your own feelings or actions? Or, as from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, didst thou “protest too much” to cover up a blunder or sin, perhaps to your later regret?
In 1775, three months after the Battle of Lexington and Concord, the Continental Congress turned to Benjamin Franklin to establish the first national postal service with Franklin as Postmaster General.
Since then, the USPS has delivered millions of letters and packages. And although the tech revolution and the advent of cell phones and email have impacted our reliance on snail mail and on the P O, postal workers and mail carriers still carry on through the proverbial “rain, sleet, and snow.”
What postal adventures or misadventures have you had? Have you ever worked at the post office?
Were you or any of your ancestors born or raised on a farm? Have you ever spent time on a working farm where you milked a cow, fed the chickens, plowed a field, baled hay, or harvested crops?
Does the bucolic life attract you or does it lack appeal?
