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Paper Tales

Write a piece of flash fiction in just three American Sentences.
Allen Ginsberg’s American Sentence has seventeen syllables.
Your task is to use as few words as possible to fill the sandwich.


Essays and Stressays

Junior highers everywhere
face the end of the year
with term papers.
The rigors of research
represent the storm
before the summer calm.
Preteens’ parents wonder:
“Would home schooling
have been a simpler option?”
c2009 by Linda Ann Nickerson

Posted for a variety of prompts:
American Sandwich (3 sentences – 17 syllables)
Poetic Asides (April P.A.D. Challenge – event)
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1 comment:

  1. Hi Linda, love the title here, sounds like the parents are the ones suffering from the stress though!

    Thanks for playing The American Sandwich game...

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