After examining the relatively new genre "Hint Fiction," students in the sophomore composition class will try their hands at creating their own stories. Hint Fiction uses a title as sort of the framework for a story, while hinting at a much larger and complex story using 25 words or less.
In this activity, students will use the title "Coming Home" to create individual hint fiction stories. After a brainstorming session, students will write the story. Using a peer sharing process, students will then trim the story to 25 words or less, while still hinting at that much larger story. Students will be graded on the effectiveness of the words chosen, as well as the process by which they arrive at the "hint" of the story.
Please post stories in the comments of this post.
Coming Home
ReplyDeleteAnna Kahle
I walked out of the grocery store; I saw a picture of a missing child. I took closer look at the picture. It was me.
Coming Home
ReplyDeleteAmber Ludovissy
At the door stood a man, in uniform, but he wasn’t the man I wanted to see. I have dreaded this day since he left.
Coming Home
ReplyDeleteHope Heitman
He needed to go back, he didn’t know how they would respond. He had been away for so long, the war had changed him.
Coming Home
ReplyDeleteAllison Kessler
She finally went back for the first time since it all happened. She gently touched her daughter's things. She couldn't believe she was gone.
Coming Home
ReplyDeleteColten Rastetter
He has been gone for four years. He received a letter, but when he saw the address, he dropped the envelope in shock.
Coming Home
ReplyDeleteAustin Behrend
There was only one day standing between the troops on the USS Rushmore and seeing the shores of California, but something did not feel right.
Coming Home
ReplyDeleteHaley Friederick
It had been a whole year of his yelling, and abuse. Finally, I made it out of there, and I’m going home.
Coming Home
ReplyDeleteRyan Moser
It was a long off-season. But, it was coming. When it cools down, they know it’s time to start having fun.
Coming Home
ReplyDeleteLogan Domeyer
They were waiting for him. So much time apart. Now it was over, the fighting and the killing. There would be no more for him.
Coming Home
ReplyDeleteKylee Puelz
She was ready for this baby to come out. She went to the hospital and met her little girl, Haile. She was excited to bring her home!
Coming Home
ReplyDeleteJj Scherf
I was on my way home, flying in an airplane from Alaska. The airplanes engine light came on. I started hearing a loud beeping noise.
Coming Home
ReplyDeleteMarcus Palmer
After being missing for 3 months, he wondered if any one had noticed he was gone, since he made his way back on his own.
Coming Home
ReplyDeletejustin wilson
The sun shines through my window as i wake up, my face suddenly fills with joy. it’s been almost a year, finally the day has come.
Coming Home
ReplyDeleteAlex Anguiano
As night fell, I finally walked in. Everything seemed still, dead, and dark. I dropped my bags and waited in disappointment.
Coming Home
ReplyDeleteChristopher Doubek
I don’t know what was taking him so long. I hear a knock on the front door, and it is the cops.
Eethen LeGrand
ReplyDeleteComing Home
Finally, I can return to the place I missed so much. Returning to the place I grew up so long ago, but something seemed wrong.
Coming Home
ReplyDeleteErica Armstrong
The door bell rang. A women stood there I felt like I should know. I had been missing for over four years.
Coming Home
ReplyDeleteChristine Eulberg
She was kidnapped and beaten for days, until she escaped and found her way back home. All that was left, was blood on the walls.
Coming home
ReplyDeleteBy: Trevor Heying
Years had passed. Days had come and gone. After all the years I walked up knocked on the door and opened it.
Coming Home
ReplyDeleteMaysie Scherer
I set my bags near the door. I throw it open and take in the familiar smells. I collapse, exhausted, on the couch.
Coming Home
ReplyDeleteJanelle Burr
Being back on the court made me want to play. Shoot the ball into the basket one last time. Be with the team again.
Coming Home
ReplyDeleteAnna Berns
I walked up the old rickety steps, dropping my suitcase by the front door. I couldn’t believe my first time back would be like this.
Coming Home
ReplyDeleteAbby VonHandorf
Twenty-two years old. He was back and forth overseas for three years. His mother cried tears of sadness, as she got the news.
Coming Home
ReplyDeleteKatie Zimmer
The scene was finally changed around Scott. The screaming and broken glass were finally gone. He couldn’t believe that he escaped the horrific, terrifying moment.
Coming Home
ReplyDeleteLuke Kann
It was long day of school not going well. The whole family was in a crash. They were arguing about the car they wanted to buy.
Coming Home
ReplyDeleteJonathan Klaes
the soldier looked up as the helicopter whirred to a stop. It was over now, after all the bloodshed. It couldn't have ended soon enough.
Coming Home
ReplyDeleteDakota Cummer
Pitch dark out. Working late, I heard a noise. A wolf came at me. I pulled my pistol, raised it and shot. Everything went silent.
Coming home
ReplyDeleteheather wilson
Cameron’s family was waiting for him to arrive.They were nervous. Would he be the same person ? What would the family think of him changing?
Coming Home
ReplyDeleteBy: Michael Anderson
It had been six years since he had been here. Six years since he had been drafted. Now the war was over.