PROMPT: News

Daily writing prompt
Scour the news for an entirely uninteresting story. Consider how it connects to your life. Write about that.

A bus strike starts today. My chance of dying on the grill of a crosstown bus is substantially reduced for some indefinite period.

PROMPT: News & Life

Daily writing prompt
Scour the news for an entirely uninteresting story. Consider how it connects to your life. Write about that.

It is by no means uninteresting, nor did it require “scouring” (though it probably would have if I was in the US,) but Bangladesh is imploding (PM ouster, protests turn violent, all exacerbated by flooding, etc.,) and we were planning to visit later this year. So, much for that trip.