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May 08, 2008

WRITING PROMPT: Escape to Freedom

You are a six-year-old Pakistani boy sold into servitude by his family to labor 14 hours a day in a carpet factory. Your enslavement will help settle a $16 family debt. You spend the next six years chained to a rug loom, working 12-hour days for pennies. Then comes the day when you escape to freedom -- here's what happens:

Send in your writing and we'll post your responses.

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May 02, 2008

WRITING PROMPT: A Story Written in Desperation

Tony Morrison, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literaure, relates that there was a time in her life when she felt she ''had nothing left but my imagination.'' She began writing fiction, and in desperation one day to complete a piece of writing to take to a writers' workshop, she dashed off ''a little story about a black girl who wanted blue eyes.'' That was the genesis of her first book, ''The Bluest Eye.''

Now, what is the story you dash off in desperation and frustration? Share with us the opening words or your story.

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