Story #10 (3 Options):

Story #10 (3 Options): Either write a new “short” of 1-3 pages or rewrite any story you have written this semester so that it has one or more of these elements: exaggeration of description (as in Boyle, “...so stripped of vegetation it looked as if the air force had strafed it”); so that it parodies one of its characters (as in “Bullet” and “Dip”); or so that the plot twists at the end in such a way as to revise your understanding of everything that you thought you knew before about the story (as in both of the Dahl stories). If this doesn’t inspire you, try doing What If? exercise # 86, “Write a Story Using a Small Unit of Time,” using “Bullet in the Brain” as your model.