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Scintilla13 Day 16 (The Final Day)

We bet there was a story you wanted to tell that didn’t line up with any of the prompts. Write it anyway – and use it to write a one or two sentence prompt that others could use to tell a good story of their own. Then, share it with us, if you’re comfortable. Most aspects …

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Scintilla13 Day 15

Tell the story of how you got the thing you are going to keep forever. Include an image in your post, if you can.   This mug has never held a beverage. I was in college when I got it. I had been sick, quite sick for several days. Sick to the point of asking …

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Scintilla13 Day 14

We exert control over ourselves and others in many ways. Talk about a time when you lost that control. This can go beyond the obvious emotional control into things like willpower, tidiness, self-discipline, physical prowess – any time that you felt your autonomy slipping away. I really can’t say my very autonomy has slipped away …

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Scintilla13 Day 13

Post a photo of yourself from before age 10. Write about what you remember of the day the photo was taken. It may not be a full story—it may just be flashes of event and emotion—but tap into the child you were as much as you can.   The above picture is of me somewhere …

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Scintilla13 Day 11

Write about an experience you had that was so strange or incredible, it sounds like it could have been made up. When I was in my senior year of high school, my mother was driving us home one evening from somewhere. We traveled down US 15 in Maryland (something we don’t often do) and when we came …

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