londonkitten - The Monday Morning Memo

What happened that caused
this girl to be living in the streets
and where is she now?

These things matter to me.

PS: And what happened to the kitten?

CHALLENGE:
Tell this girl’s story in 1000 words or less.
You can use first person perspective with present-tense verbs,
(in other words, the girl will tell her own story during the event,)
or you can use third person perspective with past-tense verbs,
(you, the omniscient narrator, will speak of what happened to this girl.)

Send your story to Jackie@WizardAcademy.org
BEFORE Monday, Feb. 27, 2012

We’ll decide what to do next
after we see how many stories we receive…

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.”

- Carl Sagan, (1995) The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, p. 25-26

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