In 7th grade my teacher, Mrs. Brown, gave us an assignment on the subject of teamwork. She handed out a story, however all of the S’s in the text were replaced with X’s, ie, “Xally xells xea xhells by the xea xhore.” We were asked to write what we learned from it on an index card. As others volunteered their answers with deep meaning, I slowly slumped down in my chair.
“Huong, can you share what you learned from the story?”
I hesitated.
“Huong?”
“The S on your keyboard doesn’t work.”
That was my answer. The class roared with laughter.
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Huong Nguyen is a photographer in New York City.
100 Words are shorts that I’ve asked my friends to write on various subjects. They are intended to be small windows into how they view the world and experience reality. The only instructions they are given are a.) a one-word subject on which to write and b.) that the short must be exactly 100 words. How they interpret the subject and the form in which the 100 words are produced is up to them.
Brilliant idea…and I’m intrigued to see more. Will you post them one by one here, or have a collection available online or in print?
@Rachel: I’ll post them here as I ask my friends to write them.
Nice idea and very well done. I like how the theme of teamwork in the short continues externally as the teamwork of your idea and design and her ideas and writing.
How come you never ask me to write something? Is it because you’re a jerk?? I hope not!