Writing Prompt: Tell Us About a Time You Dodged a Bullet

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Have you ever had one of those whew, close call! moments in which you (very) narrowly escaped something dangerous or even just mildly alarming? Perhaps your camping trip ended right before that group of black bears invaded the park? Or you slipped in the back door seconds before your parents arrived home and realized you’d left while grounded? We want to hear about it here! And we hope it gets you writing off the page, too — even if it sparks a related idea and you run with it, or conjures a distant memory that gets your fingers typing away, whatever it may be…

In last week’s writing prompt, we asked you tell us about a time you broke the rules, and that garnered some great responses. Like the one from Cathy de la Cruz in which she shared all the things she could have written about before landing on the one that was last on her list but might have been the most radical of all. Because it received so much love, Cathy won a free year-…