Prompts of Resilience

Prompts of Resilience

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Human Alarm Clock

Human Alarm Clock

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Meg Pokrass
Sep 16, 2021
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This is a “knocker upper” , a profession offered women in Britain and Ireland in the 1930s — a human alarm clock who would shoot peas at the window of a paying customer. Write a story about a charact…

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