In 5th grade my teacher showed the class some antiques and one of them was a poison ring. We had to choose an antique to write a story about from the perspective of the item. I was fascinated by the poison ring and wrote a story about how the poison ring convinced multiple women to poison their husband with arsenic (I think I had just watched Arsenic in Old Lace) and the story ended with the ring trying to convince the wearer to kill their husband.
I thought it was a very good spooky story. My teacher thought it was concerning and referred me to the school counselor. I wish I still had a copy.
In 7th grade I wrote a story which involved a guy buying marijuanna and/or pills from a sandwich cart. I say ‘pills’ because I remember my joke in the story about 288 being “too gross”. The teacher critiqued the story and commented that there were other things to write about, and why did I pick drugs? But that was all. It was inspired by a movie I had seen during the summer, where Cheech and Chong were selling their goods via an ice cream truck.
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u/radial-glia 10h ago
In 5th grade my teacher showed the class some antiques and one of them was a poison ring. We had to choose an antique to write a story about from the perspective of the item. I was fascinated by the poison ring and wrote a story about how the poison ring convinced multiple women to poison their husband with arsenic (I think I had just watched Arsenic in Old Lace) and the story ended with the ring trying to convince the wearer to kill their husband.
I thought it was a very good spooky story. My teacher thought it was concerning and referred me to the school counselor. I wish I still had a copy.