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Writing Prompt

WRITING OBSTACLE

Choose an everyday item and write a short story about its invention.

Be as creative and outlandish as you like; how might this regular object have come to exist?

Writings

The Invention Of The Spoon

The spoon had been invented for the purpose of scooping things out of a storm drains. They were originally made with a magnet inside. Someone eventually bought one and they had never used it, because they never had dropped anything in a storm drain. One day this person had the idea of using it to eat ceral, then eventually decided to take out the magnet. That is how the spoon was invented....

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Mirrors

“So you’ve built a reflective surface where you can see yourself, but I can’t see myself in it?”


“Well we’ve got to trap a ghost in it first”


“First?what do we do after that?”


“After that we’ve got to let it possess one of us”. He pointed towards himself and began gathering a multitude of strange tools.


“Then after it possesses me you have to exercise it and seal it back into the mirror, sim...

Portable Home

Steve smashed his club down against the skull of the mammoth. He had single-handedly neutralised his target with use of javelins he had made from twisting sticks between two boulders.


“Hey Steve.” Stan said, he was standing next to a tree almost oblivious to the glory and pride that Steve was feeling right now.


“What Stan
” Steve puffed out.


“This leaf is massive.” Stan replied holding a huge l...

A Wheely Bad Day.

Thag the caveman was having a bad day.


His mother was eaten by a bear and he had to find another cave after another cavemen beat him in a dance battle for it.


The sun was hot on his shaggy haired head, and Thag paddled in the river, where leeches caught him and made him scream.


He ran into a hot thing that caught on his furs and burned!

“Hey! Me just invent that!” Another caveman scowled as Tha...

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Little Fire

There once was a man who lived on a pretty plot of land,

Filled with lovely little gardens grown from a kind and loving hand.

It had plush papery peonies that bloomed pink, red, and white,

And fragrant violet wisteria that filled the air throughout the night.

He grew carrots and peas, and apples and plums,

And when he tends to his sheep he whistles and he hums.


The man loved butterflies, moths, ...

The Candle

Mia was sitting in the chilly house. The air causing goosebumps to rise on her skinny hands. She also noticed the vile odor from dinner was left behind and lingering. The sun had gone down hours earlier and she couldn’t stop shivering. This gave her an idea, a thought of wonder to be exact. Of something that could solve both problems. Give light and a smell to cover. It was this day, that the Cand...

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Vanity

Once upon a time, there was a man named Vinnie. You wouldn’t find a better looking man than Vinnie in all of the kingdom. Everyday women would tell him how gorgeous he was, they’d bat their eyes and flirt and Vinnie would flirt back.

Be that as it may, Vinnie had eyes for only one girl, but Elizabeth was not interested. She loathed Vinnie for his narcissism, she found his love for himself infuriat...

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Puzzle

Sally played with blocks at her grandma’s house while her grandpa worked in the garage. She enjoyed putting pieces together and building objects.


Grandpa’s collection of tools hung in the garage. One day he sawed some wood and the pieces fell on the floor. The pieces landed two inches apart. Sally and grandma went in the garage to ask grandpa to come to supper. Sally saw the wood pieces on ...

The Little Thief

In days of old, when dragons still ruled the land with their insatiable hunger for gold, it was common for human kings, armed with an equal level of greed but an unfortunate lack of wings, scales, and fire breath, to send brave and foolish knights out on quests to slay the dragons and reclaim the stolen treasure. These knights went forth dressed in metal armor, assuming that the metal, which was ...

From Hoops To Wheels

Once upon a time people struggled to work and carry goods around. They had managed to build carts but it took far too many men or animals or both to pull them. Dragging them through the ground was no laughing matter. More often than not the carts got stuck in mud or crashed against rocks. So many goods were lost or damaged because of these accidents.


Little Anthony was only a ten year old boy who...