400 Words


Archive for July 2006

Polly, 24, Portland

>>The prompt: 400-word autobiography
I was born in northern California. For three years, I lived in the country. We had a pool and one day it was 120 degrees. Then my family moved to a larger town. On my first day of preschool, I stayed in the book corner all day. In kindergarten, I puked the […]

Carey, 25, Northern Ireland

>>The prompt: 400-word autobiography
My earliest memory is eating tuna sashimi off a Morey Boogie Board on the beach with my family, in the windy summer sun. It was, I think, my parents’ anniversary. I grew up singing as I walked to school on the gravel road, attended elementary school at a high school that had […]

Kristine, 25, NYC

I freelance at a fashion-entertainment glossy in New York City and live in Brooklyn with two black cats named Trinidad and Tobago. After graduating from college in a post-9/11 economy, I found work as a wage slave at a national bookstore chain to supplement the nonexistent income I was earning as an editorial intern for […]

Kim, 27, Seattle

>>The prompt: 400-word autobiography
Most of my childhood was spent sweating. I’d go flea market shopping or sit in my room, writing. I was OK in school, I guess.
I joined a band after high school and spent a year playing in Orlando before the band split. I moved to Buffalo and […]