Doorknobs & BodyPaint Archives
Guides and Prompts from Issue 65
Love Issue
You're in love. You wake in the morning and the first thought
is of your beloved. And, your last
thought at night is lover. Then the inexplicable
happens. You are separated, maybe by
family, maybe by work, maybe war. It
doesn’t matter the cause. What matters
is the separation, how to endure it.
What matters is how to make contact.
What matters is being together again.
DORSAL CONTEST
In
Edwidge Danticat's short story, CHILDREN OF THE SEA, a young Haitian
revolutionary on a small boat headed for Miami, and his lover, a young woman
left behind in war-torn Haiti, narrate the story by writing letters that they
cannot mail, but appeases their loneliness while they are away from each other.
Your
father will probably marry you off now, since I am gone. Whatever you do,
please don't marry a soldier. They're almost not human.
***
haiti est comme tu l'as
laisse. yes, just the way you left it. bullets day and night.
same hole. same everying. i'm tired of the whole mess. i get
so cross and irritable. i pass the time by chasing roaches around the
house. i pound my heel on their heads. they make me so mad.
everything makes me mad. i am cramped inside all day.... we have our whole
lives ahead of us. you used to say that, remember? but then again things
were so very different then.
In 450
words or less, write a love story utilizing letter writing and two narrators. Post it in comments or send to Cairo Room doorknobsandbodypaint@gmail.com.
