Time Passages

I randomly selected four phrases and created a story using them.  This is a great exercise to use with beginning writers.  I have had amazing results with my students when doing this!

little boy      
torn page
market
cart




The little boy looked down as he saw the torn page of his book. The medieval tale was now severed, and the boy had to work hard to keep present day from bleeding into the tapestry weaved by the original book. Carefully, he repositioned the page so that the fibers found their mates. Inside each fiber he could see the scenes before him. In a stall at the farmer’s market where plump tomatoes sat waiting to be bartered, he could now see a package of 100 calorie Oreo crisps sitting next to a display of smooth skinned potaoes. This small insertion of present day enmeshed with the past so subtly, but this single change could have frightening implications for the future. He quickly attempted to mend the page before other changes could occur.

As he carefully matched up the “c” and the “art”, he prayed he had kept other present day remnants from the rest of the market’s wares; however he saw that atop the various goods that had originally been placed in the wooden cart – the burlap sack, the bowl made of pewter, the bed of straw, his prized transformer toy was now in the hands of the toe headed boy clothed in woolen trousers. He quickly taped the page together with ½ inch Scotch tape – the transparent kind, and reviewed his repair. Hopefully the present day items that had now found a place in the place would cause no trouble. Only time would tell.