Get your imagination on! It’s another fantastic Monday! Have I convinced you to like Mondays yet? 

For our fiction prompt this week, I want you to write a triptych. 

“A painted or carved triptych typically has three hinged panels, and the two outer panels can be folded in towards the central one. A literary or musical triptych generally consists of three closely related or contrasting themes or parts.”

Merriam-Webster

Fiction in 1, 2, 3

Think of things that can separate or tie together your three parts—place, time, relationship, point of view. “Eddie, in Three Parts” by Luke Sutherland in SmokeLong Quarterly is a triptych that has a particular hold on me at the moment. It is three different moments in time tied together by the same person.

For your triptych, pick from the following list of possible topics.

• A character sketch
• The beginning or ending of a relationship (or both!)
• Stages of growth
• “There’s always more than one side to a story”
• Who has sat on this park bench, in all the many years it’s been here?
• Who has lived in this house?