Each week, we’ll publish a “pitch,” a writing prompt on a general principle, to serve as the kernel of a new work. Send it to us, and we’ll release a monthly anthology of brand-new work by contemporary writers, that is… you. Responses to the pitches may take any short form–poem, short-story, and mixture of both, art-work, mixed media work–whatever it takes to respond to the pitch. Sorry universe, we’ll just publish those from @ship.edu addresses–it’s a kind of regional snobbery, but it is what it is for now.
This week’s pitch is windows. Our childhood windows were the gateways to the world, our adolescent windows bars. How do we relate to other people, events, things, as if through a window? Windows have served as pivotal moments in many lives-the defenestration and that moment you spotted your love on the street from the living room. Imagine a moment seen through a window–at what…
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