Posts Tagged ‘Children’
Jan
The Hall Monitor
by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
Bobby walked the halls with his chest puffed out for everyone to see. He could still smell the peculiar mixture of turpentine and his mother’s tears he’d used to clean his badge the night before. She’d insisted she had never been prouder.
But Bobby wanted his new title to mean something more than parental recognition. He craved the sort of popularity the richer kids came by naturally. He hungered to be accepted at any lunch table and invited to all the birthdays.
It only took one day to realize he had the power to issue pink slips and nothing more.
The Daily Theme from Figment for Jan. 23, 2012
Create a character who has suddenly and unexpectedly attained some sort of power (in the wider perception of the world the level of authority may be small or great, but for this person, the change dramatic). Write about the moment in which your character truly understands the full extent of his or her new found power for the first time.
Dec
The Christmas Cheer Brigade
by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
Every year, for reasons of geography and religious practice, children all over the world are ignored during Christmas. Certain men and women, let’s call them the Christmas Cheer Brigade, are determined to see to it these children never miss out on Christmas ever again.
The Cheer Brigade meets in secluded offices and hideaways, some of them more than 100 stories off the ground. Like the heroes in comic books, they choose to remain anonymous from the public.
You see, they know that nothing ruins Christmas cheer quite like the knowledge it’s being propagated by large corporate interests. Billionaires are not stupid.
Sep
The Junk Yard Kids
by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
Scottie and Claire loved the junk yard. To other folks it may have seemed a dire place to grow up, but for the two siblings, it was paradise.
Sure they had to worry about disease and oxidation and rats–man were there rats–but they had never known a moment of boredom their entire lives. Despite the other parents looking down at them, to the neighborhood children they were practically royalty.
Modesty had been instilled in them at an early age. Their parents made it very clear they were never to mention they were from the richest family in town.
Apr
A Greener World
by profadamworth in 100 Words
The children followed their teacher into the meadow where they had their classes. Their school desks were the rocks of the field. Their blackboard was the open sky. The teacher stooped to touch the grass with both hands, signaling that the morning recitation was about to start.
“Our lives are connected with the Earth. If it sickens, so do we. To preserve all life, we must dedicate our own lives to sustaining the health of this planet, and to our Green Republic, which guards its gardens.”
Today’s lesson would teach the children how to report polluters amongst their family members.
Jan
Wooly Pachyderm Oliver Herm
by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
Oliver walked his forest home
looking about for his favorite comb.
“I need to part my big bouncy perm,”
said wooly pachyderm Oliver Herm.
He searched in the trees.
He searched on the breeze.
He looked under rocks
and peeked inside locks.
He asked all his friends,
with strange odds and ends,
whether fury or feathered,
uncaged or tethered,
“I’m stuck in a lurch,
and you must help with my search!”
They came with their dads, they came with their mums,
all of Oliver’s buds, pals, and chums.
Whether three toed sloth or echinoderm,
to help wooly pachyderm Oliver Herm.