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Some Kind of Party by Brittany Ackerman – Writing Maps: Creative Writing Prompts and Ideas for Stories

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Just before leaving LA and moving back to Florida. A party, but not a goodbye party. A flatmate, Dorothea, and her boyfriend Robbie, and the narrator's non-boyfriend, Jake. A story of what to take with and what to leave behind. "It was fun to throw things down the trash chute," the narrator says, "as if down a rabbit hole and into some other universe, no longer in my domain, free and out of my control." Brittany Ackerman's Some Kind of Party is a lyrical account of distress and attachment, a story about drifting away from places and people, work and objects, and the underlying hope to reconnect. With photographs by Brittany Ackerman and Carl Bird McLaughlin. "III. Back at home, my roommate Dorothea is working on setting up for some kind of party. She’s still in getting-ready mode wearing sweatpants

Some Kind of Party by Brittany Ackerman – Writing Maps: Creative Writing  Prompts and Ideas for Stories

Some Kind of Party by Brittany Ackerman – Writing Maps: Creative Writing Prompts and Ideas for Stories

Some Kind of Party by Brittany Ackerman – Writing Maps: Creative Writing  Prompts and Ideas for Stories

Some Kind of Party by Brittany Ackerman – Writing Maps: Creative Writing Prompts and Ideas for Stories

Some Kind of Party by Brittany Ackerman – Writing Maps: Creative Writing  Prompts and Ideas for Stories

Some Kind of Party by Brittany Ackerman – Writing Maps: Creative Writing Prompts and Ideas for Stories

Some Kind of Party by Brittany Ackerman – Writing Maps: Creative Writing  Prompts and Ideas for Stories

Some Kind of Party by Brittany Ackerman – Writing Maps: Creative Writing Prompts and Ideas for Stories

Some Kind of Party by Brittany Ackerman – Writing Maps: Creative Writing  Prompts and Ideas for Stories

Some Kind of Party by Brittany Ackerman – Writing Maps: Creative Writing Prompts and Ideas for Stories