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a one-hundred-fifty-word bio
My Life Quickly
by Bill Schott
My life has been, like others’, a ride on a giant slinky train with a bad wheel and a bottle of Worchester sauce with a loose cap in my breast pocket.
My first twenty years were within the mediocrity of youth. Then I enlisted in the Marines.
In twenty years of service, I was a ballistic meteorologist, electronics repairman, position area surveyor, target acquisition specialist, artillery operations chief, recruiter, classified communications specialist, and platoon sergeant.
I served at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina; Camp Butler, Okinawa, Japan; Recruiting SubStation Trenton, Michigan; Fort Sill. Oklahoma, and Navy Reserve Station Waterloo, Iowa.
I served in Beirut; Kuwait for Desert Storm; Somalia chasing warlords, and Haiti with the U.N..
Two marriages and one divorce, three children, the youngest being thirty-four, and five grandchildren ranging from twenty-one to three years of age are the evidence I will leave of my existence.
That’s my life.
Your Life in 150 words writing prompt entry
My life has been, like others’, a ride on a giant slinky train with a bad wheel and a bottle of Worchester sauce with a loose cap in my breast pocket.
My first twenty years were within the mediocrity of youth. Then I enlisted in the Marines.
In twenty years of service, I was a ballistic meteorologist, electronics repairman, position area surveyor, target acquisition specialist, artillery operations chief, recruiter, classified communications specialist, and platoon sergeant.
I served at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina; Camp Butler, Okinawa, Japan; Recruiting SubStation Trenton, Michigan; Fort Sill. Oklahoma, and Navy Reserve Station Waterloo, Iowa.
I served in Beirut; Kuwait for Desert Storm; Somalia chasing warlords, and Haiti with the U.N..
Two marriages and one divorce, three children, the youngest being thirty-four, and five grandchildren ranging from twenty-one to three years of age are the evidence I will leave of my existence.
That’s my life.
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Writing Prompt Write the entire story of your life in no more than 150 words. You can be experimental, creative, funny, serious, provocative, reflective, whatever style you best feel represents your life. You must write about your entire life, not just a moment of it. No poetry (too easy). No fiction (YOUR life), although metaphors are acceptable so long as they are directly interpretable to be about your life. You'll be surprised at what your life looks like in 150 words... |
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