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Jan 14, 2025 | 
thepromptmag.com | Sarah Razner
In the last two months of 2024, I felt myself changing—and not for the better. Optimism has never been my forte. Maybe that’s a product of watching too much news or growing up in the internet age where negativity is more potent than positivity. Lately that negative tendency has grown stronger, and when asked what I am looking forward to in 2025, I’ve struggled to come up with an answer.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
thepromptmag.com | Sarah Razner
In the days since the Presidential election, I’ve been thinking a lot about the film, Spider-Man: No Way Home. I can hear you now: Sarah, that’s a strange leap. Are you okay? The answer is of course not. When your core beliefs have been shaken, it’s easy to wonder if anything matters anymore, if anything will ever be okay again. In moments of deep heartache, loss, and disillusionment, I tend to seek answers in art. Our capacity for creativity is one of the best things about humanity.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
thepromptmag.com | Sarah Razner
Sarah Razner is a reporter of real-life Wisconsin by day, and a writer of fictional lives throughout the world by night.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
thepromptmag.com | Sarah Razner
One of the most pervasive messages in our society is the importance of love. With family, friends, and significant others. How to get it, cultivate it, tend to it over a lifetime, and cope when we lose it. We devote time to analyzing the languages with which we convey it—affirmation, acts of service, etc. Love, we are taught, means everything. Unless you are versed in the language of tennis. You try to hold your opponents to love, while hoping to escape its grasp yourself.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
thepromptmag.com | Sarah Razner
Last week, when Simone Biles stepped onto the floor of Paris’ Bercy Arena, she did so with the eyes of the world upon her. Of course, this is nothing novel for any gymnast competing on the ultimate international stage that is the Olympics, as they must perform incredible feats under the weight of their nation’s expectations. As the GOAT of gymnastics, the bar is raised for her already.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
thepromptmag.com | Sarah Razner
Transcript from CNN’s The Blame Game. CNN’S ANDERSON COOPER: Good evening. I’m Anderson Cooper and welcome to CNN’s new program The Blame Game. As anyone could tell you, partisanship has been on a precipitous rise in the United States over the past decade. When we look back 30 years, shows that only 6 percent of people said that they had negative views of the Democratic and Republican parties. In 2022, that number had risen to 27 percent.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
thepromptmag.com | Sarah Razner
Remi had memorized this look. The wild movement of his hands. The way his hazel eyes widened and the gold flecks of his irises brightened, as if they had been awakened. The unintended exaggeration of his expression, the way he injected each and every word from articles to propositions with energy. It was what had attracted her to him when they first met. He approached all things, even the mundane, with zeal, which flew in the face of her conditioned pessimism.
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
thepromptmag.com | Sarah Razner
Roger had always considered himself a donut connoisseur. From bear claws to beignets, he had made it his life mission to try as many flavors and variations as he could. On his travels abroad, he sought out bakeries and patisseries like others sought the Coliseum and Great Wall. He had tasted kkwabaegi in South Korea, zeppole in Italy, and picarones in Peru. Back home, he worshiped exclusively at Winnie’s Winsome Bakery.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
thepromptmag.com | Sarah Razner
Do you want to ditch your side hustles and only have a singular hustle to survive? Would you like to see a new way of living where your worth isn’t based on efficiency but on your humanity? Are you tired of those in power telling you that you need to do X, Y, and Z to make a living while they don’t even have to do A to get paid hefty sums? We are. You may be asking, “Why are you called The One-Taskers?
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
thepromptmag.com | Sarah Razner
The stars had always been a refuge for Aya. In the frigid, intemperate winter, when tension within her home became too hot to handle, Aya took to her village’s lookout tower. For many years, it had been abandoned, a relic of the Battle Years. The rusted metal creaked under her weight as she climbed 100 rungs for 100 feet. She savored the burn of her thighs and her lungs, a rare sensation she would forever equate with freedom.
