Writing Period 5 Rubric

Count Duckula is the judge for the 5th Writing Period. His rubric is as follows:

Setting
Choose one of the following as the primary setting of your story:
A cemetery
A slaughterhouse
A sinking naval craft
A school (K-12)
A carnival or amusement park

Plot Items
Include at least one of the following items as a nontrivial element of your story:
A roller coaster
A beard of bees
A penguin
Railroad spike(s)
The Necronomicon
A grand piano
A mechanical bull
A Segway
Sandpaper
A rusted lock
Objects made entirely of ice that shouldn't be (e.g. a hammer, a bed). Ice sculptures and ice
cubes do not count; the object should retain (or intend to retain) its original functional
purpose.
An incorrect interpretation of this requirement:
"John passed a roller coaster on the way to the cemetery."
A correct interpretation:
"John rode the roller coaster into Mark's rectum."

Including more than one of these items in your story in a meaningful way will be looked on favorably.

Plot Parameters
Choose at least two of the following four options to guide your writing:
Give the protagonist of your story an addiction (e.g. murder, drugs, weightlifting). Creative and/or ridiculous addictions will be looked on favorably. Due to the nature of these stories, if you choose a sexual
addiction it must be more specific than the general act of sex to satisfy this requirement (i.e. an unusual sexual fetish).
Have at least one person die in your story.
Involve two of the locations from the "Setting" category in your story.
Give an important character in your story a debilitating ailment, such as blindness or paralysis.

Submissions will be due promptly on Monday, April 5, by 9 pm PST. Late submissions will be judged if I am informed before April 5 that your work will be late for a legitimate reason.

-Count Duckula