"This is How I Remember It" by Betsy Kemper: Classic Micro and Prompt

Please read Betsy Kemper's "This Is How I Remember It", reprinted below and originally published in W. W. Norton’s Micro Fiction (edited by Jerome Stern).

The perspective of a child is surreal, wonderful, mysterious and frightening. In this writing challenge, I encourage you to harness a child’s bizarre, unfiltered vision of the world as it applies directly to a moment of potential danger.

Notice how the sensory details in Kemper’s story pop. Try you remember how important sounds, colors and textures were to you as a child. Can you remember how big and mighty your parents and the parents of your friends seemed? The sensory world a child lives in is a magical and dangerous place.

I challenge you to harness that energy and write your own 150 word version of “How I Remember It’. See if you can use every single one of the 5 senses.

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