Your 100 Word Challenge this week is to write 100 words – no more, no less – based on the prompt – Set in Stone
How will you interpret this fossil-inspired prompt?
I can’t wait to read them!
Miss T
Your 100 Word Challenge this week is to write 100 words – no more, no less – based on the prompt – Set in Stone
How will you interpret this fossil-inspired prompt?
I can’t wait to read them!
Miss T
Set in Stone
They were coming for him. All of them. They hid in the shadows, waiting to pounce! If they got him he would not survive. He ran through the alleys and along the streets but they were everywhere. Then there was a spark of hope as he saw an exit. He ran to it as fast as he could, but they were coming. He took his narrow chance of escape. The pursuers were gaining on him as he ran down the alley that seemed to be escape. It was a dead end. The pursuers got him and turned him into stone.
As I was walking into the old tomb, I passed people fearfully huddled in the corner and strolled on without a backward glance. Alone inside the tomb there were plenty of things to study; paintings that adorned the wall were centuries old. Twisted a carved dove’s head the cracked wall swung open to reveal a long, dimly lit corridor. My heart raced as I descended into the gloom. I picked up a glowing fire torch, took an ample breath and shoved the door back into its original place. Fossils embellished the walls and glancing over them, I noticed one was human. Set in stone; forever.
Set in Stone
In the water
Out the water
things are set in stone
In your garden
Out on the street
things are set in stone
We dont know when things are set in stone. It could be happening right now waiting to be discovered. Or still in the process. Over millions of years, we have found different species of animals but that could be a third of what animals their were in the past. Scientists are discovering the past to understand what animals their are and if they are related to an animal we know today. If the scientists find that the fossil is extinct, they will find out what made them extinct.
That is why fossils are important.
The wall of petrified people
In the winter of 2050 a mysterious creature came to Earth in a silver spaceship. The people of London were unaware the danger they faced. johnny was going out for his daily exercise at his local park. On his way he saw a stone wall full of petrified people. Over the wall he saw a silver spaceship land and huge numbers of people come out.Johnny was scared to help of what he had seen and ran away without trying to help. He ran all the way home,hid under the duvet and phoned the police.
I click my fingers and everything stops, I click again and nothing happens. “It usually works”, I mutter to my self. What has happened? Everyone is frozen like stone! It will take me hours to fix this, so I get out my trainee spell book to figure out why time won’t turn back to normal. “If you are stuck in a time warp then all you have to do is click your fingers”, it says. I already did that though. I start pacing around the park “What can I do? What can I do? I need to save the world!”
Set in Stone
The dinosaurs that once roamed this mighty planet may have been wiped out by an asteroid millions of years ago.
Some of these animals died in water and over millions of years, many layers and tons of sediment eventually became cast fossils.
My sister (Bluebelle) once found a dinosaurs’ jaw bone or part of a shoulder blade, on a beach in Cornwall, that turned out to be around one hundred and fifty million years old. I also have a dinosaur fossil but unfortunately I don’t know how old that ancient creature that once roamed the sea is.
I was walking along the beach yesterday and i saw this small serial thing, it was a peculiar looking thing. I picked it up and looked at it very closely, then a loud sound came from the distance, it was my mum telling me it was time to go, I popped it in my pocket and began to run.
When I got home I put it on the table, and looked at it, I turned around but when I looked back the thing was gone, I searched for it, but it was nowhere, was it SET IN STONE,or not. AH
The size of it! It was enormous! Its eye alone was the size of a grown man’s head! “Hidden in amber for millions of years, this giant mosquito fed on the blood of ancient extinct animals, such as the well known T-Rex.”, the tour guide explained. It towered in front of us, its shadow looming above our heads. “A true form fossil, very rare in the natural kingdom. And using this amazing specimen – and many others – we created our own…” the tour guide paused for a second as a panel opened up behind us, “Prehistoric world!”.
I love it, Asa! I can almost hear the JP theme tune!
An animal dies and sinks to the bottom of the ocean. Sea creatures eat the flesh so only the skeleton is left. The skeleton is surrounded by sediment and all the minerals in the body rot. Ground minerals replace what was in the body. The sediment buries the skeleton. As it builds up, the sediment turns to rock and creates a mould. It stays in the mould for millions and millions of years. Over time, the rock breaks. Having been washed up on shore, this fossil is now waiting to be found! The fossil may be discovered and put on display.