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I was at the antique shop in Franklin and saw a box of old postcards with no messages
They were all from the 1920s and just had addresses and stamps. It made me wonder about the stories behind them. Who were these people, and why did they never send them? It's a cool prompt starter about found objects and silent histories. Has anyone else found something like that and built a story around it?
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knight.felix2mo ago
I love that "quiet connection across time" idea. My version would probably be about someone finding my old grocery lists and wondering why I bought so much canned chili.
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avery_jackson2mo ago
Actually found a stack of old blueprints in a house we were re-piping once. All these hand-drawn plans for a garden that was never built. I mean, it got me thinking about the person who drew them, what they wanted that space to be. Wrote a little thing about a character finding them and finishing the project, sort of like a quiet connection across time. Idk, just filling in those blanks with a small, hopeful story worked for me.
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karen3611mo ago
@avery_jackson that's the kind of thing that makes you look at old houses differently, isn't it? I'd probably find a set of blueprints and try to follow them, only to realize I have zero gardening skills and it'd end up looking nothing like the drawings. Like I'd probably plant things in the wrong places and kill half of them before summer even starts.
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