Your homework due next Tuesday, 9/29, is to write a short story (no more than a page and a half) riffing on one of the opening lines below. Start with one of the lines given and carry your story on from there. Come to class prepared to share (and also email me a copy.)
"Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show." - Charles Dickens, David Copperfield (1850)
"This is the saddest story I have ever heard." - Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier (1915)
"A screaming comes across the sky." - Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
"I am an invisible man." - Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952)
Can't wait to hear these!
~mrc
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