PROMPT: Biggest Challenge

Daily writing prompt
What is the biggest challenge you will face in the next six months?

I certainly have my ideas, but I’m not going to jinx it or create a self-fulfilling prophecy on the matter. Sometimes the easy is hard and the hard comes easy, and — above all — people suck at making predictions (except in the case of self-fulfilling prophesies.)

PROMPT: Teenage Self

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What advice would you give to your teenage self?

Be your authentic self.

And stop touching yourself so much.

But the first advice wouldn’t be understood, and the second would be ignored, so I’m not sure that it would be a productive undertaking.

PROMPT: Shoes

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Tell us about your favorite pair of shoes, and where they’ve taken you.

I don’t get attached. They’ll always let you down in the end. I took them to the Andes, the Himalaya — places most people only dream of going — but, ultimately, they just fell apart on me when I needed them most.

Nature Overwrites Culture [Haiku]

Photograph taken in Agartala at Gedu Mia's Mosque.
saplings sprout
from the ornate trim
of a once-grand mosque.

PROMPT: Broken the Law

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Have you ever unintentionally broken the law?

I watched enough Wile E. Coyote to know when someone is trying to dance me under an anvil.

Prompt: Biography

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If there were a biography about you, what would the title be?

Slow Learner Sings the Blues

PROMPT: At Your Age

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What were your parents doing at your age?

I suspect they’d have been making strange and new noises every time they got up from a seat, as well as experiencing randomly distributed sharp shooting pains every once in a while. The apple, presumably, doesn’t fall far from the tree.

PROMPT: News

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You get some great, amazingly fantastic news. What’s the first thing you do?

Seek a second and third independent source. The News is increasingly unreliable.

PROMPT: Lost Interest

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Are there any activities or hobbies you’ve outgrown or lost interest in over time?

I used to play with blocks and Lincoln Logs, but as I was not interested in majoring in Architecture, there was no way to respectably continue the activity.

PROMPT: Ideal Day

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Describe your most ideal day from beginning to end.

I wake up. I don’t die. I go to sleep.