WRITING CHALLENGE: Story Mosaic

A mosaic is a picture composed of a lot of smaller pieces. The smaller pieces might be whole pictures of their own.

Use these "story pieces" in any combination to create your own scene or paragraph or short story.

1. a young mother struggles with a full shopping cart and the baby in the baby seat

2. a teenage boy uses fake I.D. to purchase a gun

3. the terrifying memory of being lost and separated from family at a large amusement park

4. the teacher who smells like mothballs

5. a wallet stuffed with cash

6. the fragrance of jasmine

7. belly laugh

8. spilled tabasco sauce

9. three friends, together

10. the power goes out