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Tag: Third-person point of view
Adrian’s Dream
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Genre: PhilosophicalSetting: ModernNew Vocabulary: Autopilot, Bespectacled, Blaring, Buoy, Circadian rhythm, Dent, Diagnostic framework, Fête, Hook line sinker, Nap, Pond, Querying agents, Thrum, Weaker selfWord Count: 1118Adrian wants to write, but he can never concentrate. He tries waking up early before work, but he always just goes back to bed. Finally, he decides to nap.
The Dragon of Kraków
A dragon is terrorising the city of Kraków, but one man has a way to defeat it. It won’t take strength, though, but wisdom.
The Shape of Art
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Genre: PhilosophicalSetting: ModernNew Vocabulary: Abstract, Art supplies, Bin, Landscape (painting), Law, Portrait, Sculpture, Shape, Wrong (feeling)Word Count: 1397Felicity is a successful lawyer, but she wants a change. She tries painting and loves it. But there’s a problem: everyone hates her paintings. Can she find the true shape of her art?
Three Balls of Wool
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Genre: Children’sSetting: FairytaleNew Vocabulary: Dot, Fig, Gaze, Her curiosity got the better of her, Itch, Reflection, Rotten, Scar, Scratch, Wart, WitchWord Count: 3099One day, Leila finds a strange butterfly with three dots and fine lines on its wings. When she tries to touch the butterfly, it turns into a witch and drags her to her castle! For seven years Leila works for the witch, trying to find a way to escape. Then, one day, the witch says she is going travelling…
Think Fast!
Eugene is a big nerd, and he’s afraid of everything. But one day, a man attacks him in the street, and Eugene discovers that he isn’t so weak after all.
How the Platypus Came to Be
The nose of a duck, the fur of an otter and the tail of a beaver: platypuses are one of the strangest animals in the world! So where did they come from?
The Curse of the Pig
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Genre: Children’sSetting: FairytaleNew Vocabulary: Bone, Catch wind, Curse, Dragon, Forbid, Iron, Ladder, Mud, Pass by in a blur, Pork, String, Tell the future, Tie around, Transform, Wear outWord Count: 4280A princess finds a book that tells her future. When she grows up, she will have to marry a pig. The girl doesn’t want to believe it, but one day a pig comes knocking on her door. But things are not as they seem. This is a curse, and there has to be a way to break it…
Three Kisses
Leah’s mother dies, and her brother leaves home, and Leah is so sad that she cannot speak. Her father plants a rose garden on her balcony, and every day she gives a white rose to a seagull and kisses it three times, sending it to her brother. But dark magic is also travelling across the sea, and soon Leah will find that every rose is not so sweet…
The Pumpkin Jug
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Genre: RomanceSetting: FairytaleNew Vocabulary: A good match, Bow (verb), Come into season, Fit, Hole, Impossible, Jug, Landslide victory, Pick (flowers), Poppy, Pumpkin, Rule (noun), ThirstyWord Count: 1348A king meets a woman who grows pumpkins. She gives him water in a dirty old jug, and then she breaks it. The king thinks this is strange, but he likes the woman. So he gives her a challenge: if she can put a big pumpkin in a small jug, he will marry her. But she cannot break the jug or the pumpkin. Can she do it?
Misty the Snake (Rerun)
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Genre: ComedySetting: ModernNew Vocabulary: Bubble wrap, Ex, Lick, Marmite, Owner, Parcel, Prison bars, Put a bounty on someone’s head, Queue, Sneak, Tongue, YeastWord Count: 1457Misty the Snake loves eating other people’s pets. This does not make the people of the United Kingdom happy. So her owner takes her to Brazil, but really she wants to go home to Ghana…
