“In that place, where they tore the nightshade and blackberry patches from their roots to make room for the Medallion City Golf Course, there was once a neighborhood. It stood in the hills above the valley town of Medallion and spread all the way to the river. It is called the suburbs now, but when black people lived there it was called the Bottom.”

–Toni Morrison, Sula pg.3 

In honor of Toni Morrison and her literary legacy, write about something that is gone; something that was deeply loved, and will be dearly missed. It can be a place, an object, a person, or anything. It can be missed by you, or a character, or a people. Real or imagined. When you finish, try to put it somewhere you’ll forget, so that someday it can be discovered and read and loved all over again.