The last five minutes of a friendship
Write two friends making tea. One knows this is their last meeting; the other thinks they are discussing next weekend.
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Start here
Choose who knows, and what they cannot yet say.
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Try this constraint
Keep the action in one room and let a kettle interrupt an important sentence.
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Keep writing
Use one familiar habit differently at the end.
Two ways to take it further
- The departure may be a move, a boundary or a confession; it need not be a death.
- Rewrite from the unsuspecting friend’s viewpoint without adding new events.
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