Timmons' 55 word stories

2/13/2012

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Teyah H

2/13/2012 12:48:31 am

The Axe Murderer

She squealed as the man with the axe ran into the barn. She yelped and jumped as he moved toward her. Finally, he grabbed her and began to soothe her. He knelt down and leaned over her warm body. The axe quickly chopped off her head. Her body was limp. He shouted, “Who wants bacon?”

2/13/2012 12:50:42 am

Clear
It was poured in. Slowly and steadily I grab it. It swirls, crashes against the plastic. It makes me dizzy. I pick it up; it falls without smell inside the hole. It swishes, and fills the darkness. After a hard days work my mom finally goes to the store and buys water. “Ah, thanks mom I needed that.”

Cecilia ME

2/13/2012 12:52:08 am

Swishing, flying, through the air
“Put me down!” “Let me go!”
Screams of fear all around.
People watching with fear in their eyes.
“Good Luck” “Hold on”
Crying, Screaming, Praying Fearing.
Gears creaking, Eyes bulging as the air comes to a stop.
“Let me go!!”
“Stop crying baby, the ride hasn’t even started.”

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Graphic from the Information Literacy Project at Beloit College in Wisconsin. http://www.beloit.edu/library/infolit/

Media Literacy

"I have advocated for 30 years that, in order to preserve our democracy and protect ourselves against demagogues,we should have courses in schools on how to watch TV, how to read newspapers, how to analyze a speech – how to understand the limitations of
each medium and make a judgment as to the accuracy or the motives involved."

~Walter Cronkite,
retired news anchor for CBS television network