Prompt #138: Power

A writing exercise using banned words

Hi Friends,

I first read George Orwell’s novel 1984 in the year 1984, when I was a freshman in high school. I loved the book (along with Huxley’s Brave New World, which I read that same year) but remember thinking how wrong Orwell had gotten his prediction of the future, because at the time, I was going to parties with my first boyfriend, dancing to Prin…