READING: For next class session, please read Rebecca Makkai's "The Worst You Ever Feel," beginning on page 145 in Best American Short Stories (2008), as well as pages 23-43 in Building Fiction.
WRITING: As mentioned in class, you will need to complete the composite prompt that conflates exercises 4 and 5 on page 21. To this extent, you will need to write 9 new openings for the story you wrote for last class session: 3 "Into the Pot" versions, 3 "Calm Before the Story" versions, and 3 "Opening Statement to the Jury" versions. These opening need to be at least one full-paragraph in length and should be markedly different from one another; this will mean that, necessarily, you will have to re-imagine the narrative you've already constructed.
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