Found a 15-year-old prompt in a thrift store notebook

I was digging through a bin at the Salvation Army in downtown Portland last weekend and found a spiral notebook full of old writing prompts from 2009. One of them said 'write a story about the last payphone in your city' which felt way more interesting now than it probably did back then. Has anyone else found old writing ideas in weird places like used books or garage sales?

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roseb4714d ago

Wait, 2009? That's wild. I found a grocery list from 1998 in a library book once and felt like I'd uncovered ancient artifacts. The payphone thing is kinda heartbreaking honestly, half of them are gone now.

matthew_baker14d ago

Does that mean I'm the one who left it there? I don't even remember being in that library in 2009.