Exposed Revision

What I mean is...

I hope you are all doing as well as can be expected despite what’s been for many (not all) of us the shock of the U.S. election. I hope you’re giving yourself some space to rest and breathe and find some good. I’m writing to you from on a cruise ship, touring Southeast Asia. Of all things. It’s good, this distance, this distraction. I mean, it’s been good to be outside myself for a little while. I’m very grateful to be a tourist at this discombobulating time.

I mean it’s odd, too, but I’m grateful.

Our Vietnamese tour guide told us the people in his country are glad Trump won. It made us laugh a little, but he was serious. We all come at this living from different perspectives. That was interesting to see, from someone so far away from America, and it was good in its way, too.

I mean it took us out of ourselves. And that was good. It was a break from being all up in ourselves and our anguish and worries, if only for a minute.

Anyway, there’s good everywhere, right? Even now. Check out these awesome clouds, for instance. I saw these just before dawn the other morning, on the South China Sea:

Something a little different

So I want to do something a little different today for your prompt. I want you to play around with hesitation, haltingness (a made up word), or discombobulation. I want you to flow with a character who’s been thrown off-kilter, maybe, as many of us have this past week. Today’s prompt has you creating a piece that demonstrates a narrator editing or second-guessing themselves as they tell a story. I think you will enjoy this prompt as it allows for a somewhat looser writing style than we flash writers typically employ.