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Promposal [1]

Fiction [2]
4.20.16

If you haven’t heard of it already, a “promposal [3]” is a request for a date to high school prom through a dramatic gesture often involving witty puns and surprise declarations of affection in public, all recorded on camera and shared widely on social media. Write a scene in which a secondary character carries out an elaborate “promposal.” Is it angst-ridden and cringe-worthy, or humorously slapstick? Does the success or failure of the act offer foreshadowing for the atmosphere of the entire story?


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/promposal [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/fiction [3] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/08/magazine/the-awkward-charm-of-the-promposal.html