A Wish for a Brighter Tomorrow, artwork by Chloe Mancini, 9
A Wish for a Brighter Tomorrow Chloe Mancini, 9
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A Wish for a Brighter Tomorrow
Chloe Mancini, 9
Create an art piece using any number of colors that don’t usually work together.
PORTUGAL
Country: Portugal
Capital: Lisbon
Main Language Spoken: Portuguese
Currency: Euro
Lisbon (Lisboa) , the city of 7 hills is the capital of Portugal.
The Battle of Justice
Saanvi Garg, 8
One afternoon in Ratburg, at the castle, Captain Corona, the king, was planning out his evil plan with Spiky The Sidekick, The Deadly Disguiser, and Gus The Gardener.
“Ha, ha, ha!” cried Captain Corona. “We shall destroy the world !” he yelled.
“Yes king, we shall,” Gus said glumly.
“Do not call me king!” he screamed.
Write about what may happen if predator and prey switched places (i.e. if a mouse switched places with a bird, or if a fly switched places with a frog). How would the food chain work? How would the prey feel about becoming a predator? How would the predator feel about becoming the prey? You may switch off perspective or focus on one of the two in a poem, play, short story, or other form of media.
An update from our twelfth and thirteenth Book Club meetings!
Over the past two weeks, the Stone Soup Book Club has been reading and discussing the book Amal Unbound, by Aisha Saeed. The novel, which is seemingly inspired by Malala Yousafzai’s story, is about a girl in Pakistan who wants to become a teacher.
Static
Callum Hicks, 12
The electric blue buzz of the computer screens.
The soft hum of the machines keeping us alive.
An evil cackle of a monster behind me, casting a shadow on the cold concrete.
Snap.
My legs break in half like breadsticks.
The masks I am wearing.
They let me breathe.
Living history as if it’s some sort of consolation.
The shrill voices.
Crackle.
Create a poem with an eerie or creepy tone. You can make the poem as nonsensical or as relatable as possible, but retain the sense of being unsettled throughout.
This is a Monday prompt, so if you are writing your response in the week it was first published, you can submit it to our Weekly Flash Contest, via Submittable!
Penelope Pricklebottom
Penelope Pricklebottom was a particularly peculiar porcupine with prickly purple spikes. Penelope pondered, passing time under a pine. The sky shimmered and the sun sat high. She smelled something, sugary and sweet. Perhaps a papaya, parsnip, or pistachio pie?
Coronavirus as a Supervillain
Amruta Krishnan Srinivasan, 9
This drawing was made in response to our Daily Creativity prompt #73, in which former contributor Anna Rowell asked our readers to imagine what Coronavirus would look like if it were a supervillain.