Writing prompts

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City in Negative Space

Photographs of empty doorways become a map of someone's life.

A parent writes steps for exiting a marriage without waking the children.

A pop-up exhibit displays items people almost threw away.

A temp job is filing apology letters that were never mailed.

A retiring professor gives notes to a student who never enrolled.

Practice stops the day the neighbor moves out — but the music continues.

A sibling returns to scatter ashes where they used to swim.

A couple stops speaking for a week — on purpose.