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Creative Nonfiction [2]
4.14.16

To celebrate the presentation of the Paris Review’s lifetime achievement award to Lydia Davis, her twenty-word story [3], “Spring Spleen,” was printed on the label of bottles of mouthwash. Write a few very short pieces of creative nonfiction totaling no more than twenty words that could each fit onto a small bottle label. Taking a cue from Davis’s story, incorporate elements of both nature and social behavior.


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/micro_prose [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/creativenonfiction [3] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/05/t-magazine/entertainment/lydia-davis-aesop-paris-review.html