Every weekend of October NaNoWriMo prep month, on Saturdays and Sundays, you get three short ideas of things to possibly write about when November 1st comes: a quotation, a picture, and a roll of the Story Cubes. By the time the big day is here and it’s time to write the first of those 50,000 words, you should be stocked up on potential!
Everything there is the size of something else: strawberries are the size of tomatoes, apples are the size of grapefruits, papayas are the size of watermelons. The one-day sale on cantaloupe is into its third week.
—Amy Hempel, “Tonight is a Favor to Holly”
So many stories in this picture. Ones on film, ones in the store, ones about what we’ve left behind. Movies we watched with others, movies we ended up having to watch alone.
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