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The Diary on the Table

Do you read it?

The Diary on the Table

Your fifteen year old has left it open on the kitchen table and gone out. You can see your own name on the page. They've been off for weeks and won't say why, and you've been lying awake about it. Reading it takes ninety seconds and they'd never know.

Do you read it?

Then ask

  • What are you hoping isn't in there?
  • If you read it and it's bad, what do you say you saw?
  • Did your own parents ever go through your things? Did it change anything?

The classics and some new ones. A scenario, the question it forces, and the follow-ups that make it bite.

More at this level

  1. The Better Life, Plugged In
  2. The Voice That Stays
  3. The Promise You'd Take Back
  4. The Teleporter
  5. Seven Seats
  6. Before You Knew Who You'd Be
  7. Name the Other One
  8. The Last Conversation