Posts Tagged ‘School’
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.
Aug
The Girl With So Many Tattoos
by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
Brad saw her the first day of class and immediately fell in love. She was cool. She had tattoos on every part of her body. The tattoos made her an outcast as much as her attitude, but Brad loved her for both.
It wasn’t until much later that he began to see the truth. She wasn’t tattooed. She was a tattoo herself. A living, walking tattoo, capable of speech, inclined to violence. She was the ultimate artistic rendition of pure vengeance.
Brad loved her all the more. As he told his friends, “True love is not concerned with surface things.”
Dec
Dear Diary
by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
Today I got my first period. I’m the first in my grade to have one.
It wasn’t bad at all. I was in English class, and I told Mrs. Johnson what happened, and she gave me a pass to the nurse’s office. Only a few of the girls understood what was going on, and none of the boys.
Mom tried to be reassuring, like it was something I might be ashamed of. I think Dad was more embarrassed about it than I was.
Actually, I’m proud. I’m way ahead of schedule. This is definitely going on my application to Harvard.
Sep
Forbidden Love
by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
Isabelle hated her new town. She hated her new school. She especially hated her plastic new classmates.
Everything changed when she met Lug. He was more robust and adapted to cold weather than the other boys. He did horribly in school, but was the best running back the football team had ever seen. He ignored the rules of decorum the others obsessed over, like trendy clothes or utensils for his food.
Isabelle soon discovered Lug’s secret. He was a neanderthal. Although interspecies reproduction was frowned upon, and they would produce no viable offspring, Isabelle didn’t care. She was in love.
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
Permanent Vacation
by thegooddoctor in 100 Words
I suppose you’ll want me to start with the beginning, get straight into the middle, before building to a conclusion, and all that other crap you learn in English class, but I really don’t give a damn. Lucy always went on about proper structure, like she wasn’t just repeating Mrs. Calloway, and it’s all trite as hell. People keep asking why I don’t go back to school if I want to be taken seriously. People are funny that way, always asking phony questions. Lucy was the worst. She’s annoying as hell, but she has big tits. Sometimes I miss her.