Bad trip, or coping with COVID? This impromptu prompt gives Retrospecters the option of writing about a traumatic past vacation or the current COVID-19 pandemic. Your story might be one of a travel disaster or an up-to-the minute account of how your community and activities are being shut down. Think back … to past bad vacations or to past epidemics such as polio, AIDS, SARS. Or just talk about how you are dealing with the current crisis and its mandated staycation. Share your hellacious vacation or staycation stories forward.
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You could say that I’ve been preparing for this for 40 years. That’s how long I’ve been a novelist, and social distancing is part of the job description. Every day I come up the stairs to my office and sit down at a computer, try to shut out the world, and descend into the universe…