Need a creative short essay done within 24 hours

Choose one:

- a 500-to-750-word short story or creative nonfiction

Creative Topics:

· MYTH:

· Cruel gods; knowledge as stolen goods; no progress without destruction; the birth of good and evil; the origin of ... [insert anything]; comedy of errors with doppelgangers ("You've got the wrong twin!"); the Tree of Life

· MORTALITY:

· Fear of death; the afterlife; ghosts; worldly ambition; spiritual quests; surviving the epidemic; hedonism vs. asceticism (or pleasure vs. self-denial); sickness and healing; danse macabre

· HISTORY:

· nostalgia for a golden age; revolutions gone awry; tyrants destroyed; the eruption of chaos; oppression and mass paranoia; misguided patriotism

Submission Rules:

· Your creative work MUST be accompanied by a brief paragraph identifying the topic you have chosen and explaining the main idea/emotion/vision you have sought to convey. Submissions without this paragraph will be subject to a 10% penalty.

· Please note that in this assignment, you will be graded for your creative thinking and your effort in execution, not your artistic talent.

Rubric:

short story or creative nonfiction

Content (originality and effort)	/50
Language use	/50