Pick one of the following questions/prompts to write to. This is a creative paper. 3-4 full pages. OPTIONS You can write personal narrative/memoir or write a piece of fiction. Some quotations from the book What Belongs to You by Greenwell. Pick one of these to serve as a source of inspiration. 1.    “I knew he was performing a desire he didn’t feel, and really I think he was drunk past the possibility of desire. But then there’s something theatrical in all our embraces, I think, as we weigh our responses against those we perceive our project; always we desire too much or not enough, and compensate accordingly.” (Greenwell, page 9) 2.    “ . . . I felt myself gripped yet again by both pleasure and embarrassment, and by an excitement so terrible I had to look away.” (Greenwell, page 15) 3.    “ . . . at the very moment we come into full consciousness of ourselves what we experience is leave-taking and a loss we seek the rest of our lives to restore.” (Greenwell, page 34) OR: Write about  4.    Desire and tenderness; desire vs. tenderness. The conflict between them or the longing to integrate them. 5.    The way that childhood experiences or a childhood experience resonates, reverberates, is reenacted through adult desire and sexual expression. 6.    Sex and power 7.    Sex and its intersection with class, race, ethnicity, gender 8. first (or later) crush and what happened 9.  Your (or a character’s) sex education, formal and informal 10. Jealousy, possessiveness