Writing Prompt: The text of a letter, email, or diary

A few weeks ago I recalled writing a short story based on an idea I had, but I could not find the story. I went on a hunt for it and for some time came up with nothing. I searched backups and this blog, using every keyword I could think of. I began to wonder if I’d only thought I’d written the story. I became a little obsessed. But then a few days ago I found a mention of the story here on the site, in an entry from June 28, 2018: Brainstorming in the USA, specifically: seeing a person on the train, but only as a reflection in the window This was my first clue that the story actually existed outside my brain. I kept searching and found a reference to my short-lived newsletter, and remembered I’d included a few stories in it. I did a search for the backups to the newsletter and lo, there it was in a file named Prompt 2 of 5000.md I had written the story in Obsidian, which I used for writing the newsletters. At the top of the file was the second prompt from the book 5,000 Writing…