Some of our Stories:
Most of our stories used the same prompt – “He was digging in the garden when he found it”. There were two that used one of the other prompts.
Homelands was about a young man planning to visit his grandparents’ homeland in Belarus after hearing stories of the war and their experiences. He was trying to learn the language in preparation.
The Find was about some recent retirees volunteering to clean up the yard of an old school in preparation for extending a rescue shelter. They find an old Time Capsule buried in late 1950s.
The Cream Bottle held a prediction of an upcoming adventure. The bottle had been buried as a joke by the twin girls next door.
Love’s Labour’s Lost was about digging up a damp spot in the yard and finding a buried box. It was never opened as it was dropped back in the hole and the walls of the hole collapsed. The centre of the story went back to Shakespeare’s time when he had buried a play that was considered too dangerous to perform. Was the find the missing play?
Another story on “digging in the garden” was around a young man who had moved to Sydney and set up in his own home for the first time. We were left hanging as to what he had found when digging in the garden the class discussion shared various ideas as to what it could have been. Was it a new career path because he enjoyed working in the garden? Or is there another chapter to be written? We will wait and see.
Prompts:
We will continue writing over the break, so three new prompts were provided. We plan to share these stories in January, when new prompts will be provided for our first 2025 class in February.
- He must have been seeing things. There were no such things as ghosts – or was there?
- She watched nervously as her partner opened the door of the café for their first day of business.
- He wiped the drop off his face and looked up, seeing the damp spot on the ceiling.
Joy Shirley