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Creative Nonfiction [2]
9.4.14

It may be a drag to be the bearer of bad news, but consider the recipient. Would you want to learn that your significant other is ending the relationship through words on a tiny screen? Sometimes we can’t connect in person and we must rely on phone calls, texts, or e-mails to communicate difficult news. But what if you could recruit a messenger, a total stranger, to deliver your message for you? How would that alter the message? Write about a message you wish could be delivered by a stranger. For inspiration, watch filmmaker Miranda July’s performance piece [3] involving the mobile app, Somebody.


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/messages [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/creativenonfiction [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz13HMsvb6o