What is the kindest thing anyone has ever done for you? What is the meanest thing anyone has ever done to you? Spend a few minutes meditating on these two experiences, then create something—a poem, personal narrative, story, song, or drawing—in response.
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The Monster, a short story by Haopu (Max) Xu, 10
The Monster By Haopu (Max) Xu, 10 The monster’s name is Ackalasaf. You could find him in the depths of the breathtakingly scary wardrobe in Castle Fagg Ghast on a small island floating in the middle of the Pacific. Ackalasaf smells a trillion times worse than tons of rotten eggs and you can smell it even when you are still 1000 km away sailing towards the Castle. He looks like a giant snake with a quadrillion heads of different species (spider, bat, turtle, scorpion, hawk and any other species you may think of). The monster’s whole body is covered by sharp blackish dagger-like scales with billions of creepy green eyes on them staring at you all the time. It also has a thousand arms and tens of thousands hands with each hand having a very deadly type of poison. If you dare to touch it, you will die in 0.01 second. You could kill the scary Ackalasaf by stabbing it right in its heart one hundred consecutive times with the sharpest dagger you could ever find, but sadly Ackalasaf is as heavy as hundreds of full grown lions and as powerful as trillions of Minotaurs combined together, and your chance to win him is really very low. Feel horrified by Ackalasaf? But to tell the the truth: right now there is something more deadly dangerous and widely spread than Ackalasaf: COVID-19. SO LET’S DO OUR BEST TO KEEP ACKALASAF AND COVID-19 SOCIAL DISTANCE AWAY FROM US. Haopu (Max) Xu, 10 Oakville, ON, Canada
Daily Creativity #36 | Flash Contest: Write about a Time Traveler
Be a time traveler in reverse! What would happen if a character from the past arrived in the present? Choose a time period you like and know a little bit about, and write down at least 3 things that make it really different to now (like the clothes, the transport, the bathroom arrangements…). Now imagine that someone your age and your gender has arrived in your house from that time in the past. Use your list of differences to write a story about what happens during the day you spend together.
