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Write a story or poem told only through dialogue – an involved, back-and-forth conversation between two characters. Skip the “he said/she said/we said/they said” attribution. Just the dialogue! [Illustration by Cloudkitty, YWP archive, "School Project"]
“Rosie! Wait up! Rosiiiieee!”
“What?”
“I..need….to tell….you something.”
“What?”
“Okay, this might be kinda long. It’s, like, a whole story.”
“What happens beyond life?”
“What do you mean?”
“Like, after we die.”
“Well the point is that we don’t know.”
“But what do you think will happen?”
This was inspired by Alice Duer Miller's "Are Women People"
“Alice, what is special?”
“Specialty is difference.”
“The difference of what?”
By Edie Taylor, 10, Montpelier, submitted by Lauren Chabot, Main Street Middle School
“I swear, if you do that one more time-”
“Like this?”
“Do NOT kick that! Do you want to die?”
“Is that a threat?”
“Ugh, no.”