Assignment

Short Story

Your short story should be 500-1000 words long.

Before submitting your story, make sure you story has

• An exposition, rising action, complicating incident, climax, and a resolution.
• A setting, plot, and theme.
• Sensory details and rich description to capture the reader’s attention and develop a mood.
• A narrator with a consistent point of view.
• Dialogue to move the plot and show the characters’ ideas and feelings.
• Consistent verb tense.
• Appropriately selected and implemented active and/or passive voice
• Correct capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.