Posts Tagged ‘Children’
Dec
Just A Game
by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
Paul steps to the line and takes a deep breath. Were he to sink the next two shots, he will be celebrated globally for the rest of his life. Women will worship him. Children will be named after him. Movies will be made and he’ll be the star. His legacy will be forever secure.
If he misses, however, not only will his own life be ruined, but those of an entire city.
The shots miss badly. Death, when it finally comes, will be a mercy for Paul.
And to think there was a time when basketball was just a game.
Oct
The Special Works Unit
by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
Jurgen was chosen at a young age to join the special works unit. This was considered an extreme honor. Only the strongest, most durable children were selected. His parents received a large stipend as a reward, and his primary school held a celebratory send-off in his honor.
Jurgen waited for the day of his departure with a mixture of excitement and dread. On the one hand, as a future member of the special works unit he was already receiving special privileges.
On the other hand, the reality was he would spend the rest of his life as a menial laborer.
Jul
The Abandoned Barn
by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
The children of Glen Haddock often played near the empty barn on Signal Hill. They would dare each other to approach and brag about going inside at night.
The barn was abandoned years before. The children speculated what evil might lay within and noticed that sparrows would fly inside and never fly out again.
There was a man working the field near the barn. He was frightening in his own way. He warned the children away.
“That’s where we lock away the scarecrows after they go bad.”
None of the kids ever thought of going into the barn after that.
Jul
Abnormal
by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
Ben’s parents adopted him late in their lives. They fed him and encouraged him to make friends and planned elaborate birthday parties that no other children came to. They did their best to give him a normal life, but something just seemed wrong with him.
Eventually, Ben’s parents realized they had been wasting their time. What was the point of adopting a child if he wasn’t going to attract more children to their home in the woods? They could have just kidnapped him and baked him into a pie and saved a whole lot of money on clothes and tuition.
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.