Writing Prompt — What If?

What if she didn’t care about our world? She was only ten years old and worried about nuclear arms between the United States and the Soviet Union!

Annelise Lords
Dancing Elephants Press
3 min readMar 12, 2023

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A Writing Prompt Called What Ifs by Denise Estey Lindquist

https://medium.com/everything-fun/a-writing-prompt-called-what-ifs-45d3f213f834

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Reading: A Writing Prompt Called What If’s by Denise Estey Lindquist

She asks: What if you could move your workplace — coworkers, bosses, everything — to a new location? Where would you go?

Watching Dateline a few months ago, 10-year-old Samantha Smith was remembered. Reading her life story, I wondered:
What if she didn’t care about our world? After all, she was only ten years old and worried about nuclear arms between the United States and the Soviet Union. Most ten-year-olds don’t know or care enough about our world to wonder if it ends.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Smith

In December 1982, when she was ten years old, Samantha Smith wrote a letter to the new leader of the Soviet Union, Yury

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