JAMES’ 100 WORD CHALLENGE
BOOM!
The car explodes, shrapnel flying everywhere. The elephants are running for their lives. I duck for cover as gunshots ring out over my head.
The next day I find the village burnt out, no elephants in sight, just smoke billowing from the old huts.
I walk down the stream that is just over the hill and find the elephants lying in the swimming hole, so I go join them.
I get up to go scout out the bandit camp. I head back and gather the elephants which are talking with each other, and then the elephant delivered his speech.
JAMES – YEAR 8
What an imaginative way to use the prompt, James. There is lots of action and some really good descriptions in your story too. I particularly like the phrase ‘just smoke billowing from the old huts.’ There is a really good pace to your story. The way you use paragraphs really helps with that as does the way you make it feel like it is all happening now by using the present tense.