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Attn Writers – A short story writing activity?
He res a creative writing activity for all of the writers out there. Write a short story, and creatively incorporate as many topics as you can from the list below:
1) A Mechanical Pencil that is out of lead
2) A popular website
3) A shoe with a hole in it
4) A skunk that had its scent glands removed so it cant spray
5) A gas pump
6) A catfish
7) A convertible (car)
A hard disk drive
You don’t have to incorporate them all. Don’t be shy, no negative feedback here! No length requirement, but more than one paragraph is encouraged. I’ll try to pick a winner after a while based on : 1) the number of topics incorporated, and 2) the creativeness in which the topics were used in the story, and of course 3) the story itself!
For any aspiring writer, it is better to write something than nothing at all!
okay, so when I first read this question I didn’t really feel like writing anything for it, but then I continued to think about it so I wrote a little something. It may not make that much sense, but it’s just what I wanted to write it! 
BEEP! BEEP! The small mickey mouse alarm clock blared. Liza rolled over in bed and peered lazily at the time displayed on the clock.
7:05 AM
Her eyes flew open when she read it and she flung herself out of her bed. Ripping off her flannel pj’s she tore down the hall while pulling a small comb through her tangled hair. Slipping on her shoes her toe sunk into the familiar space of the hole in the left one. She didn’t have time to find anything for breakfast, so she started heading to school. The red convertible raced down the street, leaving dust in its wake.
When Liza finally reached the large high school it was nearly 8 o’clock. She knew she had missed her early morning band rehearsal and she’d have to visit Mr. Flute at lunch to explain. As Liza walked up to her locker on the third floor her heart sunk. The bottom left corner had been kicked in and she would have to find the janitor to open it. Practically jogging down the halls, she spotted one of the janitors pushing a cart towards the washrooms.
“Excuse me,” she called out brightly, stopping next to her. The middle-aged woman looked up, a don’t-bother-me look written plainly across her face.
“What?” she croaked.
“Well, my locker has been kicked in and I need my books from it for first period,” Liza quickly said. The woman, whose name Liza suddenly remembered as Gertrude, heaved a great sigh.
“You’ll have to go to the custodian’s office. Someone there’ll be able to help you,” Gertrude said lazily, turning back towards the washroom. Liza sighed and started out at a jog towards the first floor where the office was located. When she finally spotted it, she knocked hard several times, but there was no reply. She waited for a few minutes but nobody showed up. Accepting defeat she headed back towards the third floor where her period one class was. As she reached the stairs the bell rang, marking the start of classes. Liza hurried up the stairs, taking them two at a time. When she reached the door to her class she was already a few minutes late, and she tried to hurry in unoticed. As she sat down in her usual seat near the back everyone stood up. Confused, she looked around, spotting the website written on the board below the word quiz. Swearing under her breath she looked around for something to write with, and she spotted a mechanical pencil laying near her feet. Taking a small, crumpled piece of paper out of her pocket she scooped up the pencil to write down the URL for the online quiz. To her dissappointment she discovered the pencil had no led in it and her teacher was waiting impatiently at the door for her. Sighing she hurried out of the class after her classmates towards the computers in the library where the quiz would most likely take place. Sitting at one of the computers she glumly typed in fmylife.com and scrolled through it as everyone else did the quiz.
By the end of the day Liza had a fairly large stack of homework. She had retrieved her bag from her locker at lunch, and now it was filled with all the assingments she needed to finish. Walking away from the school she spotted the red convertible she had seen that morning. Several laughing girls filed into it as she walked by.
Liza took the familiar path towards the small pet store. A small bell tinkled when she walked in, and she smiled at the young girl sitting behind the counter looking bored. As she made her way through the store she peered into the various fish tanks, spotting the large catfish near the back of the store.
An hour later Liza had peered into just about every tank in the store, and she walked up to the counter.
“Hey, anything new today?” she asked the girl at the counter.
“Not since yesterday,”
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Aspiration Pneumonia is a Serious Problem
Aspiration pneumonia occurs most frequent in patients that are in a coma or in those who are so seriously ill that they barely breathe. It affects more frequent the elders but it can also occur at other age categories.
Aspiration pneumonia refers to the problem of mouth contents entering the airways instead of going into the stomach. This can lead to an infection of the lungs, fever and breathing problems, even a bacterial pneumonia.
Generally, a person who has a malfunctioning swallowing mechanism, who does not posses a good cough reflex, could develop aspiration pneumonia. Even those patients who are fed with a tube that goes directly into their stomach could develop this problem, due to a regurgitation of the stomach contents into the throat and then into the lungs.
It is highly indicated for such persons to eat in an upright position, and stay in this position for 30 minutes after eating is done. Even the patient’s own saliva may get into the lungs, especially if he has an increased production of saliva. To prevent this, cleaning the mouth with a dry bandage and frequent suctioning of the mouth is highly recommended.
Patients who still have tracheotomy should clean the tracheotomy tube of the coughed material, this way preventing mucus and bacteria from being aspirated back into the lungs and causing a bacterial pneumonia which is a serious illness.
There are some methods of keeping the lungs expanded, and so, helping to loosen up the material that needs to be taken out: clapping or cupping the chest, breathing exercises, changing the body’s position more frequent, and using a vibrator over the chest.
Aspiration pneumonia can even lead to one’s death by chocking with the sucked materials; this is why prevention is so important.
When a lung infection occurs treating it at the right moment and with the right drugs could lead to its cure and save the patient from developing other complications like producing a partial collapse (atelectasis) of the lung.
Signs of installed complications like bacterial pneumonia are: cough with yellow or greenish sputum, high grade fever, chest pains, breathing problems, muscle aches and fatigue. Treatment consists in administering antibiotic drugs, controlling the fever, and most of all, preventing lung aspiration of mouth materials from occurring again.
The treatment of aspiration pneumonia consists in administering oxygen, aspiration of the foreign materials from the airways, and total spell. The therapy will include anti-shock medication and antibiotics.
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