History That Never Was

The sixteenth prompt from the Big Pink Book has four stickers, and I’ve decided to call it Space! after the first one.

At the top left of the page, there’s a rectangular sticker showing what is likely a planet and its moon on a dark background, lit by a star in the midst of a hazy area at the right.

At the top right of the page is a dark blue or purple flip phone with heart-shaped keys and an icon on the screen that looks like a letter with a heart on it coming out of an envelope.

At the bottom right of the page are the other two stickers, one above the other. The top sticker is a vaguely rectangular sticker with a transparent cover anchored at three points on the long sides above five vertical stripes in pink, red, yellow, green, and blue. Each of the rainbow stripes has a bunch of orderly, tiny dots, which makes me think this is meant to be one of those toys with blunt pins where you can put something under the pins, and they push up in the shape of the object (apparently these toys are called “3D Pin Art,” which makes perfect sense).

The lower sticker is a simple square with alternating horizontal stripes in shiny gold and matte white. The stripes look slightly uneven in the photograph of this page, but that might be the angle.

I’ll be back on Friday to talk about what I did with this page, which involved a DEEEEEEEP rabbit hole.

Tags: the big pink book, writing prompts

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