Five
sentence fiction.
Prompt word: Learning
For
the third day in a row, Sally handed over her peanut butter and jelly
sandwich; for the third day in a row, Roberta promised she'd pay her
back tomorrow. For as many days poor Sally went through gym class
(murderball, again), art, French (Mademoiselle Parfait was
particularly peppy this week), and language arts (parts of speech:
yawn is a verb) on a handful of raisins and a mini yoghurt. Sally was
pretty sure she'd never see a sandwich from Roberta, ever, nor would
the pb&j purloiner let Sally in on the four square game like
she'd promised, either.
Sally
slumped into the kitchen after school, feeling a wisp of her former
self, barely lifting her head from her hand when her mother asked
what she'd learned in school that day.
“Never
give away your peanut butter sandwich,” she replied, “no matter
how much you want to play four square.”
I learn something every week on these challenges. I'd never heard of or seen anyone play this game. I had to do a search to find out what it was!
ReplyDeleteIt was a good story! Took me back to my early school days.
Thank you.
ReplyDeleteThis was an exercise in writing though I didn't feel it. These writing prompts are good for that!