Welcome to this week’s featured writing prompt. Write about circles and roundness. Use an object from childhood to create a full circle moment in a character’s life.
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About Shana ThorntonShana Thornton serves as Editor-in-Chief of Her Circle Ezine. She has an M.A. in English from Austin Peay State University, and writes fiction, interviews and features. She recently completed her first novel about the conflicts and traumas of militarized culture in a family and is currently seeking publication. Read more at http://www.shanathornton.wordpress.com/
Tori Grant-Welhouse writes about The Chalk Circle, a new anthology of intercultural prize-winning essays and finds that “our melting pot days are behind us. The impetus can no longer be homogeneity but validation of the diversity that makes us different or ‘other.’”
I remember years ago as a young child in the 1950′s learning that the earth was round. I remember the feeling of amazement walking home from school that day up the hill and turning around on that clear autumn day looking at the scenery below. The world was so much bigger and fuller than I had imagined before.. I had often sat on that hill that led to the court where my parents’ house was situated. The sidewalk led up a hill that was set higher than the school itself and looked over the rooftops and down off the mesa that was Linda Vista where I lived. It looked on the California coastal area and down onto the Pacific Ocean. I remember holding my breath and thinking of the lands that must lie beyond that sea and thought of the map that was in the classroom that the teacher pulled down over the blackboard and the globe the teacher pointed out that represented where all of us lived. One student, a boy, did not believe what she said, but I did for some reason. I guess I wanted to believe that I could go to all of those places and visit all kinds of strange lands and see them for myself.I believed the map and the globe were true. I wanted the earth to be round because the moon was round. The sun was round. Why wouldn’t the earth be round? How exciting the world seemed to be. I still think it is.