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The weirdest writing prompt came from a Wikipedia rabbit hole about abandoned shopping malls
Honestly, I was just looking up the history of my local mall for nostalgia and fell into a 2-hour spiral. Did you know there's a specific term for the aesthetic of dead malls called 'liminal space photography'? I found this stat that says over 25% of US malls are projected to close by 2025, which is crazy to me. That little fact got me thinking about a prompt where a character lives in a mall that's slowly being abandoned around them. I ended up writing a whole short story about a janitor who's the last person there. Has anyone else turned something as random as a mall stat into a writing idea?
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