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Jim Krusoe is the author of five books of poetry, the short story collection Blood Lake, and the novels The Sleep Garden, Iceland, Girl Factory, Erased, Toward You and Parsifal. He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Fund.
Using the prompt below, write, create or compose from the back of your neck for 11 minutes. Then send in your work as a document or a sound file. I'd love to feature it.
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Many predicted a crisis was coming, but only now are we living to see it. Seemingly unconnected events joined together are making a true crisis unfold as we speak.
It started when winds in South America shifted North and carried smoke from fires from the Amazon to Cleveland. This smoke met the smoke from Cuyahoga River which had ignited again. These fires joined the jet stream and have begun to blanket the earth. People were concerned when it happened. But the smoke didn’t block out the sun entirely, so people could still visit the beach and feel okay. They could cope. Then, the next day, the titles of people’s homes disappeared on the paperwork and computer files. Just like that not one person in Ohio and the rust belt could not prove that they owned their homes. And then this terrible conspiracy spread to Finland, Angola, Maldives, the Philippines. No one is certain what to do next.
As we face down this uncertain moment, as the title of every single home and land deed disappears and the world burns, you are to find a character or scene to tell us the truth of this moment.
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