When I was a sophomore in high school, I had to make up a short story in class using only three pictures that our instructor showed us. The three pictures were:
1. A woman in a field, titled Christina.
2. A picture of someone sitting at a diner.
3. A picture of an iron on an ironing board.
I had only that to go off of, and here's what I came up with:

The Man In Black
Christina is out at the Diner as she is every Wednesday afternoon after work. She orders her usual coffee and reads the daily newspaper. She is reading the headline news and it reads "Killer On The Loose". It goes on to talk about how he takes all of his victims hostage, ties them up, and tortures them with a scorturing hot iron.

With that thought lingering in her mind, Christina takes a sip of her coffee and it seems scorturing hot. All of a sudden she begins choking on it. Then out of nowhere this man dressed in all black appears and slaps her on the back a couple times until she spits it up. Then she sees an ironing board in the background, so she runs away in fear after what she has just read.

So Christina, tired and exhausted, decides to go home. She takes the subway to get home faster. Once inside, she looks behind her and across the empty boxcar, there's the guy in black. The chase is on as chases her boxcar to boxcar. As soon as the train stopped anywhere, she was going to immediately get off. Anywhere just happened to be in the middle of the country, but she got off anyway as the guy in black, not too far behind her, did the same. She got off the train as soon as possible, which ends up being in the countryside. She looks around and there's no sign of life anywhere. As she starts to walk, she hears leaves crunching not far behind her. She's too afraid to turn around and look behind so she starts to panic then decides to run instead.

Now she enters the woods. She runs for what seems like forever before she finally stops to rest. She sees a huge tree ahead of her, so she decides to rest behind it. As soon as she turns her head, there he is off in the distance. So she starts running again. It's becoming darker and darker making it harder and harder to see. So she just keeps on running when she trips and falls. She hurt her leg badly, so she limps as fast as she can. As she looks behind her, she can faintly see the man. She keeps pushing on. She takes another look and he seems to be getting closer and closer. She takes yet another look behind her and he must be only 20 feet away from her now. She limps on farther, looks one last time, but there is nobody there, no sight of any life.

Up ahead she sees a car, she tries every door, the last one she tries is open. Lucky for her, there's a key in the ignition. The car seems to have problems starting. She finally gets it started after a while and goes all but ten feet when it sputters and dies. She starts wondering why, but she looks at the gas gauge and it's pointing to empty. So she gets out and runs to a nearby field. She looks behind her only to again find that man in black chasing her, but this time there are police behind him. She is relieved as she falls to the ground in exhaustion.

The man in black approaches her with police all around him when he says, "Here's your coffee bill". Christina has a stunned look on her face as the police slap a pair of cold heavy handcuffs on her. One of the policemen are reading her her rights. "You have the right to remain silent, anything you say can and will be used against you in the court of law", and he keeps on going on for a while with the rest of it.

Another police officer approaches her and explains to her that she is getting arrested for not paying her coffee bill, and for attempted grand theft auto.

Christina is sitting in jail later that day. Then the security guard assigns her to her daily duty, ironing clothes.

This is an assignment that we (a group of 3) had to do in my senior year at high school. We basically had to make up a fake company, and pretend that we could try improving a local company. Here's what we came up with (sense the sarcasim throughout the report).

Wall Street Marketing
We are a major marketing corporation that is known world-wide. We typically help organizations by coming up with better solutions for their financial needs. We are now going to help Long Prairie Fleet Supply.


One thing we feel that needs to be improved is the variety of products. To do this, expansion is a must. By doing this they will attract a wider base of customers and it would lead to more business, which will lead to higher profits in the long run.

Also, another thing that could be improved is the service. People have said that they have good service, but it could be improved. The people follow you around like hawks everywhere you go, as if you are going to shop lift or something. It wouldn't be so bad if they just followed you periodically or just asked once if you've found everything you were looking for, but not the entire time you're there. I mean they literally stalk you, like a vulture in a desert circling it's prey just before it dies. If a person needed help or had a question, most would go to the workers instead of the workers invading their privacy every passing minute of the day.

The business is also adding a lumberyard. If they use our marketing strategies, then their lumberyard will be successful and could put the Long Prairie Building Center out of business. Our plan is to literally crush (we usually use a less mild term such as "put under" instead of crush) the competition and put them out of business. It could create a monopoly that will lead to increased business and profits.

Another problem is that they only have one cash register. If the store gets crowded, not that it does get crowded very often, I'm just using it as an example, then you have to wait in line forever. If they had two, it would cut the waiting time in half (we figured that out using very complicated high tech mathematical equations). Also, if they get robbed, not that they will, I'm just using it as an example, then it would take the robber twice as long to collect all the money from the cash registers (also determined using very complicated high tech matematical equations). Then if they tripped the silent alarm, not that they actually have a silent alarm, I'm just using it as an example, then it would give the police a lot more time to get there. That would not only save them money, but it would actually prove that there is actually a reason to rob Fleet Supply in the first place, not that there isn't a reason now, I'm just using it as an example.

When you go to Fleet Supply you expect to find what you want and not walk out empty handed. We can make Fleet Supply the best. We would do this by striking the enemy where it hurts, after all, wood and fire is a recipe for disaster. I'm not implying arson, but I'm just using it as an example.