Your Spooky Chinese Fortune Cookie

by Laura on September 23, 2009

in Writing Exercises

From a Chinese fortune cookie: “Select from the past only what is useful for dealing with the present.

Yes, another Chinese fortune cookie. It’s not that I’ve been spending a lot of time eating Chinese food lately, I just save up my fortunes to see if one of them comes true. So far it’s still a work in progress.

Write your own Chinese fortune. Try one modern style (optimistic and generalized) and try another the of the old fashioned kind which were kind of spooky and mystical. The sort of cookie you open with your fingers crossed and your breath held, suspense making your fingers tremble in case this fortune said something you didn’t want to hear/ read.

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