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Kurt Vonnegut on Writing

on April 20, 2023

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Rosie, Tomato!

A creative prompt for a play synopsis: Rosie, Tomato! Follow us on the adventure of unfortunate Rosie, who by a strange turn of events got transported to Romania in the 16th century. Nobody speaks English at all, and hand-signing was not helpful as well. But determined as she was to get her bearing in the unfamiliar place, whenever she met a kind, helpful passerby, she pointed to herself and said, 'Rosie!' while asking 'You?' to the strangers. And her simple questions are all met with horrified looks and loud gasps from them - before they either run away or shake their head at her. Frustrated and bewildered, poor Rosie went around repeating the same questions all over and over again - until she met a Missionary, preaching in the middle of a local daily market. The sympathetic young man lends her an ear patiently as she recounted the occurrence that befalls her, with little understanding of her modern English slang. However, as she arrived at the part of the frightened ...

Lila, The Book Dweller

The changing weather brought relief to her. She finally got out of the book, after being sucked into it and forced to go through the adventure of the imaginary characters in the novel. It’s a power inherited from the women in her family, though sometimes she feels like it was a curse, forbidding her from truly enjoying her love for reading books for pleasure, especially during rainy days. Like a masochist, she kept being drawn to the books during the stormy seasons, despite knowing that she will eventually enter the literary world and live the fictional lives of a minor, unimportant character in the stories, get entangled with the main characters (albeit her best effort to avoid them) - and ended up loving them, forming friendship and familial ties, eventually. Time can go for extended years in the book when in her world, time passed in mere minutes or hours. She can't count how many heartbreaks and painful separations she had to go through each time the weather changed, for she ...

Fundamentally, I am a happy person

I believe that I am a happy person Funny though, I have to declare it Spoken out loud while forcing a half-asses smile - On a cracked mirror That is so broken You can barely see a happy face. Maybe I used to be a happy person Once upon a time When youth still shines in my eyes Bright and hopeful Like a breezy spring day. But now, I have to say That I believe that I am Fundamentally a happy person Before circumstances forced me To be perpetually unhappy. Such is the fact of life.

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