Mini-Essay: What Is Evil?
Week four of a six-week burst of prompts from my summer Zoom course
It’s a tough prompt. I realize there’s a lot of obvious answers. But open your heart a bit, think about what’s going on in your life, and maybe there’s a way to answer this question in a surprising and meaningful way?
Take the captions of the options I was given in the stock photo category on Substack when I entered “evil” into the search category: “horror girl in smoke” and “woman holding a skull” and “man grabbing a tree” and “the cutest little snake snout.”
Clearly, you have some options. Send me your best shot!
Hello, Mr. Deuel. I am not one of your current or former students, but I found your Substack by chance and have found it interesting and of quality. Seeing you and your students' work, I regret I cannot attend one of your courses. But, I would like to answer this prompt and request some of your feedback on my piece—just general impressions are fine. I wish to know how to improve my writing. If you're willing, this is the link:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17cZ389sKSbqSQO3dh8Y9nqDD7BgSOa6mHrEaE2znTFg/edit?usp=sharing. The piece is a fictional informal essay. Thank you.