Purple Walls
Prompt: At the assembly on the first day of school, Dr. Majerus instructed us all to imagine a place that makes us feel peaceful. Describe- as concretely and vividly as you can- the place you imagined that morning. In December of 2020 my family moved houses. We didn’t move far, we didn’t even leave Savoy, but all the same my space changed drastically. My room is at the very end of the upstairs hallway. It’s the smallest bedroom and has purple walls. It’s a very light shade of as pure of a purple as you can get. It doesn’t lean pink and it doesn’t lean blue. It’s perfectly in the middle. I know a very young girl chose this color. The images we saw online when deciding whether to buy the house or not showed dolls arranged neatly on a pink desk in the corner. That was all gone now, and the walls looked somehow uninviting and cold to me at first. In the empty room the purple reflected a weird grey in natural light. I was put off by it at once. I remember asking ...