Microinterview 2: Past, Present or Future

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Microinterview 1: Beach anxiety.

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All Beach Anxiety microinterviews (so far)

Format for Beach Anxiety:

Instructions:

1. In more than 99 but less than 251 words, describe a memory of something slightly or seriously SCARY that you actually, personally, experienced on a beach (or in the water off that beach) you lived near or visited.

2. The memory (e.g., event, encounter, story or local urban myth) should be from before you were a licensed driver.

3. You don’t need to name the location or date, but you can if you want.

4. Please don’t fuss too much. Don’t hunt around for the right one. Keep it simple and spontaneous if you can, maybe as if you were just talking. Just do it.

5. Optional. If you like, you can include an image to post with the micro-interview. It can be a personal photo, a pic taken from the web, can be from any date, yesterday or 1776, and need not have any obvious relationship to the beach at all besides the fact that you think it goes with the story in some way (you don’t need to say how). It may be cropped or resized when posted.

Respond in any style, you don’t even have to be clear (within reason). The memory can be of something apparently trivial or something apparently important, the only rule is that it be of something that seemed slightly or very, very scary to you at the time (and may not necessarily seem so now). Anything from a silky, shark or sea monster (but you had to be worried at the time), to dangerous surf, to nasty older kids, to a really awful matter of life and death for adults as well.

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