A Table in the Clouds, after Robert Therrien [Writing Prompt #261]
Aug 07, 2017I was in a castle. The castle was in the clouds. I stood under the giant’s table listening to the song of the harp and the sound of golden eggs dropping from a hen.
When was the last time you suspended belief and stepped into a fairy tale?
At The Broad art museum in Los Angeles last week, I walked under a table and all I could think about was Jack and the Beanstalk. I remember being a kid and sitting under the dining room table pretending it was a gingerbread house in the woods or a castle in the sky.
The artist, Robert Therrien, seems to want us to remember having that experience of living in the possibilities of the imagination. It worked.
Write about a setting from the point of view of a child. Pick a piece of furniture or object from your childhood. Crawl into a space that you would be too large for now. What does the world look like from there? How does it feel to be so small?
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