April 2025 Exercise


APRIL 2025

Choose one of the short stories below and write a brief plotline. Then, using your special, personal style of writing and genre - write the story for yourself in five pages or less. Stick with the important elements from your plotline but feel free to change characters, place and specifics. Here are the stories:

METAMORPHOSIS - Kafka

THE GIFT OF THE MAGI - O Henry

THE TELL TALE HEART - Poe

THE LAST QUESTION - Asimov

THE LOTTERY - Jackson


You can find them for free online, or at least you can find a summary of the story for free online.






Enjoy!