Challenge #12: Personal essay
AUTHOR Audrey De Leon TITLE "My Sister's Room" PROMPT In this recent piece from Under the Madness Magazine , De Leon describes the bedroom of her younger sister and interprets what it says about her as a person. The room appears messy and features a collection of items that might look random to an outsider: "books that are stained with highlights, a snake plant in the corner, a rosary hanging on the handle of her door, letters that are crumpled and wrinkled." At the same time, the writer senses a definite order and care to the room, as her sister dusts her belongings carefully and creates a warm atmosphere with scented candles. Underlying all of these descriptions are the cultural expectations of being a woman in the Philippines, which often put the sister at odds with her mother. For your challenge, describe a space that is occupied by another person. It could be a bedroom, but it could also be a neighbor's garden, a teacher's classroom, a worker's ...