Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been

Write short/flash fiction that, as Oates implicitly does in “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” and as Carter explicitly does in “The Company of Wolves,” uses a familiar fairytale or myth structure to explore coming of age in a way that feels nuanced and surprising. Allow the style in which you write, the descriptive details you choose to foreground, and the way you build the world in which your story/poem/scene takes place to reveal to the reader how they should understand and interpret the content of your story/poem/scene.