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Find the clues to determine the … Point-of View. Mini Stories. I walked home from school today with my friends. We stopped for ice cream. I had vanilla. It's my favorite.
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Find the clues to determine the …Point-of View Mini Stories
I walked home from school today with my friends. We stopped for ice cream. I had vanilla. It's my favorite.
Ted plays on a baseball team. He loves to play with his team. He has a game next week. His coach thinks he's a good baseball player.
When I got up this morning I brushed my teeth. Then I got dressed and ate my breakfast.
"When someone asks me what business I am in, I am seized with embarrassment: I blush and stammer, I who am otherwise known as a man of poise." from The Laugher by Heinrich Boll
"Barry cradled his father's head in the crook of his left arm, so that the man could tilt back his head, exposing the throat. He brushed fresh lather under the chin and into the hollows alongside the stretched tendons. His father's throat was fleshless and vulnerable, his head was a hard weight on the boy's arm. Barry was filled with unreasoning protective love. He lifted the razor and began to shave." from Shaving by Leslie Norris
"Mrs. Gage almost fell into the fire with joy. She had not seen her brother for many years, and, as he did not even acknowledge the Christmas card which she sent him every year, she thought that his miserly habits, well known to her from childhood, made him grudge even a penny stamp for a reply." from The Widow and the Parrot by Virginia Woolf
The princess was locked in the tower. She had no way to escape. She hoped that a prince would rescue her. Her wish came true. He came and took her to his castle.
It is 8:15 and Sarah is standing at her opened locker gazing into the mirror she has glued to the inside of her locker door. As she makes sure that no remnants of her morning breakfast remain on her perfect smile, she sees that Tom is talking to Leslie in the middle of the congested hallway. Turning around to get a closer look, Sara begins seething. Man, I can't believe Tom would even look at her twice. Obviously hedoesn't remember when Leslie came to school. That girl wouldn't even havesurvived had it not been for me. I took her under my wing and did acomplete makeover, you know, like Sher in that movie Clueless.
I have holes in my top and bottom, my left and right, and in the middle. But I still hold water. What am I?
The man who invented it doesn't want it. The man who bought it doesn't need it. The man who needs it doesn't know it. What is it?
A farmer had nine sheep, and all but seven died. How many did he have left?
A woman gave birth to two sons who were born on the same hour of the same day of the same year but were not twins. How is this possible?
They were two of triplets. • http://www.rinkworks.com/brainfood/p/riddles1.shtml