Day 11: Stories

“Below are three sets of words.  Use all the words in each to write mini stories in 300 words or less.

Set 1: paper clips, principal, lunchbox, swing, girl with a pink ribbon

Set 2: biology, class card, foreign student, leaf, blood sample

Set 3: typewriter, filing cabinet, puncher, clerk, carbon paper, janitor”

Story 1

Harry was sent to the principal’s office one day because he was being a nuisance during lunch.  The slip the teacher had used to write him up said that he had been throwing paper clips at the other tables for no apparent reason.  According to eye witnesses, Harry was keeping a box of paper clips in his lunchbox that he had bought at an office supply store the other day.

While waiting to speak with the assistant principal in charge of discipline, Harry noticed a girl with a pink ribbon in her hair also waiting inside the principal’s office.  “What on Earth could this sweet young thing be doing here?” thought Harry.  The girl was invited into the office and the door closed.  Apparently that sweet little thing had set fire to a tire swing during recess.

Story 2

Bing Su is getting ready to fly to America and, for the first time in his life, be a foreign student in an American classroom.  While looking at a leaf under a microscope in his Biology class in preparation for curriculum in the States, Bing receives a class card from the principal’s office of his current school.  Not really knowing what to with it, he makes an appointment to see the principal for an explanation.  It turns out all he needs to complete his study abroad application is to give the local clinic a blood sample and he’ll be ready to start his adventure!

Story 3

In the back office of crime fighting detective extraordinaire Private Dick, the typewriter was a-clanging creating a summary of the last caper solved.  The clerk was using the hole puncher and slamming drawers from the filing cabinet to make sure all of the paperwork had been filed.  It’s one thing to file a police report, but what happens if the criminal from an unsolved case breaks into your office and steals your carbon paper copies?  That’s when you get a safe for the storage of your personal and professional belongings.

What the office of Private Dick didn’t know was that it was the janitor all along that had been leaking the crime scene information to the press.  This behind-the-scenes information had allowed the bad guy to get away, but what the public didn’t know was that the bad guy was also that janitor’s brother!  Oh, heavens to Betsy!